Rise and fall of MS-DOS floppy FORMAT program

From: Stan Pietkiewicz <pietstan_at_rogers.com>
Date: Mon Oct 14 22:43:00 2002

Sounds like motivation to keep a bootable DOS5 system around, with both
3.5" and 5.25" drives....


Sellam Ismail wrote:

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