Old software available

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Apr 27 14:27:53 2004

The number of disks is NOT a suitable way to differentiate between "full
install", "upgrade' and "stepup" (although the "stepup" WAS available as a
single HD diskette, and even as a DOWNLOAD!)

Perhaps, it might be even more accurate, in identifying what it is,
to look at what is marked on the diskettes!


For those not familiar with that range of MS-DOS versions:

6.20 was revised to improve reliability, due to problems
created by SMARTDRV (and blamed on DBLSPACE) Possibly the
ONLY time that ANY MICROS~1 product was ever revised to
improve RELIABILITY

6.21 had DBLSPACE removed (as part of the $100M infringement
settlement with STAC Electronics - Bill Gates "had a bad day")

6.22 had DRVSPACE as a replacement for DBLSPACE

They were available as full-installs, as upgrades that required
presence of almost any previous version, and as [often free]
"stepups" that upgraded between minor versions (such as from
6.2x to 6.22)


On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Tom Uban wrote:

> My copy of DEC MSDOS 6.0 is three disks, so I would guess so.
>
> --tom
>
> At 02:15 PM 4/27/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >And thusly SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com spake:
> > >
> > > MSDOS 6.21 3 disks
> >
> >Is this the entire installation? Speaking of this, does anyone have or
> >know where I can get a copy of QEMM?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Bryan
Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 14:27:53 BST