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Article #10820Re: Hard disk question
From: Ralph Sims
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 01:57
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 01:57
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pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes: > IBM-PC compatibles can easily handle hard disk with more than 32 > megabytes of space. However, DOS versions before 4.x could not access > more than 32Mb as a single drive letter. Since DOS is capable of Please don't tell that to my COMPAQ DOS 3.31 or I'll lost all my partitions. The world isn't flat. > Compaq's DOS 3.31) and loading device drivers. The latter two solutions > are often incompatible with old software. What? I've never found ANYTHING that ran on DOS 3.xx or 4.xx that wouldn't run under COMPAQ's 3.31. Where DO you get your information? -- I got where I am today by driving through hell... ...in a Pinto.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Hard disk question Message-ID: <kyP231w164w@halcyon.uucp> Date: 5 Jun 91 01:57:31 GMT References: <9106042133.AA25173@heath-bar-crunch.MIT.EDU> Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Lines: 17