On 2024-07-29 10:09 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, Rod Bartlett wrote:
I found Tim Peterson's old blog a while back which contained some interesting tidbits about the history of DOS from the original author.
http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/

I did find one unimportant error,
He said that DOS 1.10 supported both double sided, and 9 sectors per track.

That may have been what he wished for, but I'm pretty sure that what Microsoft actually released was DOS 1.10/1.25 supported double sided 8 sectors per track (up from single sided in DOS 1.00),
(SOME OEM versions of 1.25 support 8" disks!)

and DOS 2.00 supported 9 sectors per track (Plus enormous other major changes, such as the "file handle" API, added to the existing "FCB" API.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred             ci...@xenosoft.com

2.0 was better but not quite a finished product.

Xenix...

It planned over time to improve MS-DOS so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which would also run on the 68000, Z8000, and LSI-11; they would be upwardly compatible with Xenix, which Byte in 1983 described as "the multi-user MS-DOS of the future". Microsoft's Chris Larson described MS-DOS 2.0's Xenix compatibility as "the second most important feature".] His company advertised DOS and Xenix together, describing MS-DOS 2.0 (its "single-user OS") as sharing features and system calls with Xenix ("the multi-user, multi-tasking, Unix-derived operating system"), and promising easy porting between them.

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