>Yes. However, I'll point out that the majority of the problems reported
>with MS-DOS 6.0 (trashed disks) were not caused by DoubleSpace, but by
>SmartDrive. The DOS 6 setup program installed SmartDrive as a write-back
>cache by default. Folks who used badly-written REBOOT.COM utilities
Hmmm... Does using write-back caching by default strikes me as a dumb thing to
do, even for M$. (OK, so some other OSes - but those should be shut down
properly, not just turned off like DOS).
>instead of pressing Control-Alt-Delete got nasty surprises. (Yes, me too.)
Well I've always used INT 19h - or is it 18h? - which SmartDrive should hook.
Hopefully.
>MS-DOS 6.20 had the improved DoubleSpace. 6.21 didn't -- it was the post-
>lawsuit, cover-our-butt release, and a funny DOS it was. DoubleSpace was
>not included, and the help files were changed to reflect its absence.
Ah. This must have been what I was thinking of as MS-DOS 6.1...
>If nothing else, Novell's purchase corrected a lot of misspellings!
And added a few disks to the diskset... AFAIK PNW added 3 floppies to the
1.44Mb set - unless PNW shipped with DR DOS <= 6...
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Ben A L Jemmett ICQ: 9848866 JGSD e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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