1 Jan
2016
1 Jan
'16
1:35 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
What's funny is that in the old pre MS-DOS 3.3
days, one of the ways to trick
DOS into supporting larger volumes was to increase the (apparent) sector size
with code to block up 512 byte sectors into larger (1024, 2048, etc.)
apparent ones--and a few DOS patches.
Another way, starting with PC/MS-DOS 3.10 was using MSCDEX, or equivalent.
I think that there used to be some very strange patches around to let a
hard drive impersonate a CD-ROM.
A CD-ROM (2/3 G) was not a local drive to the OS! It was presented as
being a "drive-like" object on a network.
That is a VERY LOCAL area network.