Rise and fall of MS-DOS floppy FORMAT program

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Oct 14 20:53:01 2002

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> Windoze 98? dropped /F:2
> Windoze XP dropped /F:720. /F:x is still supported, but only for

They add gigabytes of superfluous sound and graohics but they can't spare
a few dozen bytes to retain old switches that still might be useable to
some folks?

Microsoft: We May Not Be Good, But We're Slow.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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