Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > though of course it's tricky building a 720k 6.22.system disk.
>
> Not particularly. Stick a 3.5 inch double-density (not high-density) disk
> into a standard PC 3.5 inch drive, and say "format b: /s /f:720".
>
> Unlike 5.25 inch drives, where there are interchange problems with 360K
> disks written in 1.2M drives, high-density 3.5 inch drives can write 720K
> format with no problems. This is because both the 720K and 1.44M formats use
> the same track pitch and track width.
That makes a 720k boot disk. When I typed "system disk" I meant one
with an appropriate collection of utilities, which with code bloat
can be hard to fit on a 720k disk -- since "edit" needs "?basic" etc.
MS-DOS was still tolerable at 3.3, 4.x was a null, 5.x was a null on
steroids, 6.x just got worse and worse. Praise whatever gods might
be for Caldera's resurrection of DR-DOS (which I do have to download
sometime soon -- since I'm actually using OpenDOS when I feel like
playing DOS games on my Linux boxen).
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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 10:37:27 GMT