Clarence wrote:
>Hmmm. Peter Norton seems to think MS-DOS 3.31 WILL recognize big partitions.
>
>Can you tell from the manual just what the difference between 3.30 and 3.31
>might be ? Could it be possible that that portion of the manual was not
>updated from 3.30 ?
I just read a little in the "Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and
the IBM PC" (it was downloadable from my homepage, I might have removed it
due to space problems on the server - look for a file called dosref.zip).
Anyway what it says is the following:
> MS-DOS 3.31 November 1987 over-32 meg DOS partitions. Different
> versions from different OEMs (not
> Microsoft). Compaq and Wyse are most
> common.
(snip)
> PC-DOS 4.0 August 1988 32mb disk limit officially broken, minor
> EMS support, more new function calls,
> enhanced network support for external
> commands. PCjr support dropped.
(snip)
>Early Compaqs labeled DOS 2.0 as DOS 1.x. Other
>versions incorporated special features - Compaq DOS 3.31 and Wyse DOS
>3.21 both support >32mb disk partitions in the same fashion as DOS
>4.x.
So perhaps there is some diffrence after all?
Also there's this mentioned (nothing about MS-DOS 3.30)
> PC-DOS 3.3 April 1987 for PS/2 series, 1.44 meg support,
> multiple DOS partition support, code page
> switching, improved foreign language
> support, some new function calls, support
> for the AT's CMOS clock.
//Bernie
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