Re: Help PC1

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From: brown
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1986 02:19

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In article <10800030@uiucdcsp> forbus@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I've just had a PLUS 20MB hardcard installed in my COMPAQ PLUS, and I'm
>still running Dos 2.11 with no problems.  So the previous posting is in
>error, you do NOT need Dos 3.XX.  It seems a priori likely that Dos 1.XX
>wouldn't work, though.

You are correct, you can work with DOS 2.11, but DOS 3.xx will give you
2k cluster sizes instead of 8k cluster sizes.  That is a real nice savings
of space.

BTW, if you formated with DOS 2.11, you will need to redo everything with
DOS 3.xx to get 2k clusters.
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Subject: Re: Help PC1
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 22:19:28 EDT
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