>I don't have to go back to DOS 3.x - I'm using DOS 3.3 as I type here in
Netscape 2.02. The interesting point about the CDROM is I had one in the
box - no problem with DOS 3.3 - but I took it out because there wasn't
anything useful to do with it. Everytime I stuck a CD in it, someone
wanted me to load Acrobat. Screw that.
The CDROM is now physically in my P90 but not running because I haven't
got around to installing it for Linux. - Still no use for it.
If I want to play CDs I use my CD player.
My Zip drive works fine with DOS 3.3. I partitioned my removable media.
- Clarence Verge
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Can DOS 3.3 with MSCDEX read a data CD, which always > 32 MB? Normally you
should need Acrobat with a CD only when there are .PDF files. But just to play
music CDs, a CD player saves tying up the computer. Similar advice applies to
movie DVDs: you can get a standalone DVD player and not need Windows or Mac.
But recent court proceedings against DeCSS leave me with a bitter feeling toward
DVD movies. Similar bitter feelings on MP3.
I hate to think of subdividing a Zip 250 into 8 partitions, or a Zip 100 into
3 or 4 partitions, just because DOS can't handle it as one partition.
What do you mean by not installing the CDROM for Linux? Do you mean the CDROM
or the sound-card driver?
Since the first DOS I had was MS-DOS 4.01, back in 1990, I have no access to
anything earlier, not that I'd really want any earlier DOS.
On Linux and NT accessing extended memory, these OSes use protected mode with
32-bit addressing, which can access the entire memory space with one segment
(flat memory model). 286 CPU had 16-bit protected mode with segments indicated
by selectors; multiple segments were needed to span > 1 MB RAM. Is there any
distinction between protected mode and real mode on Alpha, PowerPC and
Ultra Sparc, or do these modes have no meaning?
