28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
5:59 a.m.
Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com> wrote:
though of course it's tricky building a 720k
6.22.system disk.
I replied:
Not particularly. Stick a 3.5 inch double-density
(not high-density) disk
into a standard PC 3.5 inch drive, and say "format b: /s /f:720".
Ward replied:
That makes a 720k boot disk. When I typed
"system disk" I meant one
with an appropriate collection of utilities, which with code bloat
can be hard to fit on a 720k disk -- since "edit" needs "?basic" etc.
To me, "tricky" and "takes a few minutes of tedious drudgery" are
entirely
different things.
By your definition, your original claim is exagerated and irrelevant anyhow,
because it's "tricky" building a 6.22 "system disk" on any size
floppy. 6.22
comes with so much useless crap that I was forced to sort through it even to
make a "system disk" on a 2M hard disk partition.