DOS 3.20 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jan 2003

IBM PC-DOS or Micro$oft MS-DOS? I have the PC-DOS 3.20 manual.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ed Tillman
Sent:	Sat 1/11/2003 8:36 PM
To:	cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:	
Subject:	DOS 3.20

I believe DOS 3.20 is what I was looking for.  It came as original
software
for a Packard Bell 386/12T (don't remember the specific model name), and
I
used the accompanying book to teach myself DOS programming -- back in
1991...   The system had dual floppies (both sizes), a small hard drive,
no
sound except for the system speaker, and one of the first mass
production
.25 dpi monitors.  I paid through the nose for the system at the time,
but
I'd likely give an arm and a leg for that old DOS manual...

Cheers!

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" &lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt;
To: &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 08:55 PM
Subject: Re: Old (5.25") PC software

...
  On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ed Tillman wrote:
 > I dunno about these, but would anyone happen to have a copy of DOS 2.x
or
...
  > 3.x (2.3 and/or 3.2 maybe) on 3.5 disks, nd with
the accompanying user
text
...
  > book?  Some of the information in those old texts
is still applicable,
but
...
   can't be
found anywhere... 
 There ain't no sech thing as 2.3

 2.xx was only available with 3.5" support in specially modified versions
...
  for certain specific brands of machines (usually in
version 2.11). Even
...
  the disk format isn't standardized on those.

 3.20 (internally it thinks that it is three point twenty, NOT two), is the
...
  first version that includes 3.5" support (720K)
without special machine
...
  specific modifications.

 2.11 and 3.31 are only available in versions that were intended for
 specific machines.  'Course in most cases, the only thing that is
 different is the code in MODE.COM, and sometimes FORMAT.

 If you have a machine with specific peculiarities, 3.31 is the hot setup.
...