22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
6:24 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
large disk support?? dos has supported partitions over
32meg since at least
3.3 hasnt it?
3.3 (There ain't no sech animal; it is actually 3.30, three point THIRTY)
was limited to 32M (due to DOS using "relative sector number", and being
unable to comprehend more than 65536 sectors per drive letter.
3.31 (three point thirty one) was the version that supported larger
drives.
3.3 (which is actually 3.30, three point THIRTY) was limited to 32M (due
to DOS using "relative sector number", and being unable to comprehend more
than 65536 sectors per drive letter.
3.31 (three point thirty one) was the version that supported larger
drives.
I think version 6 had Antivirus support
bundled
third party program (explicitly excluded in the question)
and dos 5 was the last
version you could install on a set of floppies (or at least the setup program
would let you)
a fault of the setup program (which wasn't needed. (I don't think that
5.00 had a SETUP, so that IS a major difference) DOS was quite content to
be on a floppy, but the morons who wrote SETUP.EXE did it so that it could
not comprehend installing ANYWHERE except drive C:! PCs and XTs (not ATs)
ACTIVELY support up to 4 floppies. I wanted to install it on a machine
with 4 floppies, and the hard drive was E:. MICROS~1 published an
"answer": "If you want to install it on a drive other than C:, then
install it on C: and then SYS the correct drive and copy it from C: to the
correct drive." I did NOT want to put it on one of my floppies.
Fortunately, it worked just fine to install it on another machine, and
then install it wherever you wanted without using SETUP.EXE.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com