Amstard PPC640D - boot idsk? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Jul 2012

Tony wrote:
...
   NOTE:  the
number to the right of the period is 30 (1Eh), NOT 3 (03h)
 Even pickier: It is a "period", NOT a "decimal point", nor
"radix point";                           ^^^^^^
 So what is it called in the UK? We call the end-of-sentence marker a
 'full stop', not a 'period'.

  it serves as punctuation separating an integer,
and a 2 digit decimal
 integer. 
 Does that mean that the correct way to pronounce the verisons are 
 'three - thirty' and 'three - thirty one'?  
I personally would have pronounced these MS-DOS version numbers variously as "three
point three," "three three," "three point three oh," "three
three oh," "three point three one," or "three three one."

As to the earlier part of this thread, on which systems had these various versions of
MS-DOS:  Yes, indeed Zenith provided/used 3.31.  I used to own a copy that had upgraded to
for my Z150 PC-compatible computer back in 1987/88 and after.  That particular computer
and all its software are now in Seattle, part of the collection of the Living Computer
Museum.

Kevin Anderson
Dubuque, Iowa, USA