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Article #2799Re: MS/PC DOS 3.3 vs 4.? (which is better?)
From: Isaac Rabinovitch
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 20:53
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 20:53
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In <58280@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>In article <1990Oct15.025303.6582@odetics.com> frank@odetics.UUCP (Frank Merrow) writes:
>>I assume that even though the Hard Disc is a large partition that the
>>standard floppies still work too (even Microsoft would not dare screw up
>>that bad).
>The format of floppy disks is unchanged.
That may well be, but I've had some trouble reading disks on 3.2 that
were formatted under 4.01. It *might* be a hardware problem, but I
have to wonder what 3.2 makes of a 4.01 disk serial number.
--
ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch
{apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!netcom!ergo From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: MS/PC DOS 3.3 vs 4.? (which is better?) Message-ID: <15548@netcom.UUCP> Date: 25 Oct 90 20:53:38 GMT References: <1990Oct15.025303.6582@odetics.com> <58280@microsoft.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: UESPA Lines: 19