Ha! You can download COMMAND.COM here 
http://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_contents/dos.html. The 1988 MS-DOS 3.3 variant 
is 25.3K

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Charles Mills
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 3:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Shark Tank: Is this why mainframes almost never get rebooted?

> COMMAND.COM in the late 80s was way smaller than 65K

Good grief! Indeed, the minimum IBM PC was 16K! ("Pricing started at US$1,565 
(equivalent to $4,073 in 2015) for a configuration with 16K RAM, Color Graphics 
Adapter, and no disk drives." -- 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#Debut) 

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