On 7/24/21 10:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
My recollection of the DMF Microsoft period was that if you purchased a retail MS product using the DMF format and couldn't get it read on your system, a call to MS would result in a standard format copy being shipped.
It's my understanding that The DMF disks that Microsoft (and comparable from IBM with PC-DOS) used a different non-FAT file system which took up less space on the disk, thus yielding more storage for data. But that they both fit on the same /standard/ ""1.44 MB disks.
I also seem to recall that Macintosh's could get 1.7 MB on the same ""1.44 MB disks.
But I could be completely wrong. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
