On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:17:08PM +1000, Peter Hardy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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:
[snip]
> 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.
ARJ, Pkzip and some others are able to split (so does Winzip).
BTW, I know that a lot of companies used this.... and still do.
When OS/2 was around I used it instead of Windows, all the IBM disks in
those days came formatted as 1.7MB, I was very happy with that because
OS/2 in those days had far more apps by default than windows had.
( I faintly remember it came with > 30 floppies).
jobst
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