-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Eh? With MSDOS? No gooey stuff in there! >> >> >> Well, there was GEM, plus TUIs like DesqView. > > I wasn't claiming that no GUIs existed, just that I don't > use any. I used DesqView briefly, just for fun. But never > on that machine.
Ah, misunderstanding. >> But you can't be using it just for MS-DOS; what's the point of >> having 16MB RAM if all yo do is run non-extended DOS? > > I have 16MB of RAM because that's the minimum configuration > for that machine when I bought it. And, actually, I have > used some of the extended RAM on occasion, with a disassembler > (Sourcer) I used to run. I haven't run that in a long time, > though. Why not install Linux and dosemu? > [snip] > >>> You sure that isn't 360KB? The 5 1/4 floppies used in those days >>> were multiples of 90KB. SSSD was 90KB, SSDD was 180KB, and >>> DSDD was 360KB. >> >> >> Nope. That was the IBM PC format. > > Ok. > >> The same DSDD minifloppy formatted on a KayPro would hold 380KB. >> >> You should remember that all the CPM machines had their own special >> formats. > > I dunno about "special". They were just CP/M format. I never bothered > with learning how to use the USERx stuff on those discs. I always > just used USER0 area. Not true. Each had it's own format. A few companies did a good business selling programs to format and copy (soft sector) 5.25" floppies on and for all the myriad of CP/M machines around in the early 80s. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1dRiS9HxQb37XmcRAv6gAJ4kMlhLr66UtXF8Slbyn0JqIvdsdQCgxwDO i2CkvtEeuMcoe3JxNnNDWaY= =kXYO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
