Even in dos days, these DMF disks could be copied without extra
utils... it was just a matter of hacking around with the FAT table
name.. norton diskedit/secotreditor was good for this :)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 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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