5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
1:34 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:20:24PM -0400, Gene Ehrich wrote:
I have a set of DOS 3.30 disks which comprise the
following:
1. startup disk,
2. operating disk
3. missing
4. help disk.
Can anybody tell me what should be on the missing disk 3 and what will
happen if I try to install it?
Here's how I understand it (someone correct me if I'm wrong) --
Even though IBM and Microsoft were using the same code in PC-DOS and MS-DOS,
the distributions were not the same (different layout of files or different
files). And Microsoft let OEM's tweak DOS for many years, so even all
MS-DOS distributions with a given version number are not the same.
So what brand names are on the disk labels? Do they match the brand
of the computer you're installing on? (Installing some other OEM's
version isn't _dangerous_, but you might not get the right obscure device
drivers, fiddly little utilities, etc.)
-- Derek