12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
6:05 a.m.
> And, with SYS, you can tell it what
"drive" to pull the system files
> from, so you could stick them on another hard drive in the machine
Nice. Looking up SYS.COM in the Ref (v3.3) manual:
"DOS statrup requires {(sic)IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM}
to occupy the first two directory entries, and because
IBMBIO.COM must start at the beginning of the data area of
the disk." that explains a lot.
But, format/b documentation confusingly mentions
that the floppy is also formattted 8 sectors per track.
Sounds almost wrong -- the capacity doesn't change
for example.
John A.