Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jan 1999

...
  silly assumptions about the machine (MS-DOS software
often assumes that 
 the floppy drive is A: and the hard disk is C: - and refuses to let you 
 change this!). Or that misdetect the hardware I have (my enhanced CGA  
In fact, I've always found the limitations of DOS and PCs curious. Does
anyone know why:

*They refuse to boot from anything but A: or C:
*DOS FDISK refuses to create more than 1 primary partition
*DOS can't find an ATAPI cd-rom without a driver, even though it's an IDE
device
*Why we are limited to 2 floppy drives in DOS