[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I wrote:
> Why would you want to use software written so poorly that it won't work with
> DOS 3.3 - the workhorse of the pre-UMB era ?
> >
>
> Because DOS 4 introduced some new functions that made DOS 3.3x obsolete, one
> such function being Extended Open/Create (int 21h function 6Ch), and enabled
> access to hard disks in larger than 32 MB pieces. Imagine partitioning one of
> today's hard disks into 32 MB pieces - I don't think it would work. I believe
> the first DOS I had was actually MS-DOS 4.01, correcting some of the bugs in
> the original DOS 4 release. GW-BASIC and EXE2BIN were included. Would
> CD-ROMs work under MS-DOS 3.3x?
My CDROM works fine under PCDOS 3.3.
> Removable-media drives such as Zip and Jaz wouldn't work or
> wouldn't work well with 32 MB partition limitation.
> My Syquest works fine under PCDOS 3.3.
> Today's big downloads from > the Internet would pose problems with
> partitions <= 32 MB.
What kind of a twit would download 32 Mb on the internet ? Oh, yes. The
twit that KNOWS that newer and bigger is better.
- Clarence Verge
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