15 Aug
2003
15 Aug
'03
3:17 p.m.
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
Yes, there was a PC-DOS 1.00
Yes, there were single sided drives
Yes, they sucked
The drives, or PC-DOS 1.00?
I didn't void my warranty for 72 hours.
Smaller, faster, cheaper: about a month ago I bought a $30 broadband
router from CompUSA. I powered it up once to poke at it and make sure
it powered up. Then I soldered a JTAG connector in and connected the
debugger....
-Frank McConnell
15 Aug
15 Aug
6:44 p.m.
New subject: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules and IBM PC Professional Debug
> Yes, there was a PC-DOS 1.00
> Yes, there were single sided drives
> Yes, they sucked
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Frank McConnell wrote:
The drives, or PC-DOS 1.00?
the PCs
the most common drive was the Tandon TM100,
which was better than many previous ones.
I'm ambivalent about MS-DOS. There were some parts of it that I really
liked.
16 Aug
16 Aug
3:06 a.m.
New subject: DOS bugs. (was: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules ...)
I'm ambivalent about MS-DOS.
There were some parts of it that I really liked.
It helped that the bug count was so low.
I don't know that there were any bugs at all with the DOS'es.
Q: Were there any bugs in DOS?
John A.
(or were they saving them all up for Windows?)
3:24 a.m.
New subject: DOS bugs. (was: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules ...)
From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: DOS bugs. (was: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules ...)
Well, I dont know if you could call it a bug, but I once had an experience which I could
have lived without (which I obviously do today). I needed to sort a textfile where each
record was 256 bytes. I had to give up, as SORT only could sort records up to 250
bytes....
Nico
I'm
ambivalent about MS-DOS.
There were some parts of it that I really liked.
It helped that the bug count was so low.
I don't know that there were any bugs at all with the DOS'es.
Q: Were there any bugs in DOS?
John A. 
3:53 a.m.
New subject: DOS bugs. (was: FA: Altera PLD programmer, Motorola HYPERmodules ...)
At 07:57 AM 8/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
After DOS 1.0 there were a FEW but they were almost unknown. Certainly
nothing like WinBlows. M$'s software has NOT improved.
Joe (who's spent the last day tring to recover from a damaged W'98 FAT
table)
I'm
ambivalent about MS-DOS.
There were some parts of it that I really liked.
It helped that the bug count was so low.
I don't know that there were any bugs at all with the DOS'es.
Q: Were there any bugs in DOS?
John A.
(or were they saving them all up for Windows?)
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