DOS disks?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Oct 28 13:59:26 1998

Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com> wrote:
> though of course it's tricky building a 720k 6.22.system disk.

I replied:
> 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".

Ward replied:
> 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.

To me, "tricky" and "takes a few minutes of tedious drudgery" are entirely
different things.

By your definition, your original claim is exagerated and irrelevant anyhow,
because it's "tricky" building a 6.22 "system disk" on any size floppy. 6.22
comes with so much useless crap that I was forced to sort through it even to
make a "system disk" on a 2M hard disk partition.
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 13:59:26 GMT