On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:43:57PM +1000, 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.
Yes, cramming a little more space onto a floppy would have been great. But,
well, Microsoft didn't tell anybody else how to do it. I don't see why
Microsoft's install media should be the only benefit of the technology.
My Year 11 qbasic assignment stretched to just over 1 floppy, and for this
reason, I now officially hate Microsoft.
Peter
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