Old software available

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Apr 27 16:13:09 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!

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Brian Mahoney wrote:
> That is good advice EXCEPT companies such as IBM don't put the total number

The "advice" was NOT to read the diskettes to find out
how many there are/should be.
The "advice" was to read WHAT variant version is marked
on the diskettes to differentiate between whether it
was a "full install" v "upgrade" v "stepup",
rather than counting the diskettes as an identification
of version.


> of disks on each disk. Microsoft does, and since this is ms.dos it applies
> but I just bought a Warp version that has 30 floppies or so, none of them
> marked 1 of 15 etc. The bloody box doesn't even have the number of disks on
> it, neither does the manual. Turned out to be the full version anyway.

You mean a "complete copy"
"full version" is also used to refer to the MICROS~1 variant of
installation (v "upgrade") that does not require a previous version
to already be installed.

The failure to include "of 15" in the diskette numbering is
indeed, grossly incompetent.


> Wasn't there a DOS 7 download from a Chinese site listed here a few months
> ago?

7.10
which is the DOS underlying Windoze 98. (FORMAT /S)
It was so full of extraneous third party command shells, graphic loaders,
etc., that it was almost impossible to figure out WHAT it was.

The only thing there that was unique, was a claim to be able to handle
NTFS! Did NOT work.
Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 16:13:09 BST