On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They
> formatted the disks as 1.7MB to confound the casual pirater, and generally
> make life difficult for the rest of the world.
Look, I don't much MS either, but...
Back in the bad old days before every desktop machine had a CD-ROM
drive, and most people were installing from floppies, MS squeezing an
extra few hundred K onto the floppies can only be a good thing. Win
3.11 came on 7 floppies. If they had been using 1.44Mb, they would have
had to have used 9 floppies instead. I'd say that is good thing. Less
swapping of disks, less media to pay for, less media to store, less
media that could get corrupted with errors.
I'm sorry, I just don't see how they "make life difficult" for anyone.
Except inept pirates, who I couldn't give a stuff about.
-Andrew.
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