Excerpt from Sam Heywood:

> If you have a hard drive having a partition larger than 32 MB
> and you try to SYS it with a DOS version 3.30 or less you will
> have problems.  I don't know how serious the problems would be
> because I have never dared to try it.

I'm inclined to think you'd avoid problems because DOS version <= 3.30 wouldn't
recognize a partition > 32 MB, therefore any attempt to SYS it would yield just
an error message, wouldn't work at all.  But I have no such early versions of
DOS to experiment with.  But another hazard is that with MS-DOS through v4
required system files to be in a particular location on the disk to be
bootable.  Therefore SYS could damage existing files.

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