I think there's at best a great deal of "faulty memory" here. Something was nagging, so I just did a bit of research. COMMAND.COM in the late 80s was way smaller than 65K.
Remembering that a backup copy has been saved, what did the clever PC expert do? Deleted the backup, and copied COMMAND.COM from their own floppy. That's technical know-how. In 1988 where I worked selected users had COMPAQs. Stand-alone (no network) and pre-installed. There was no "PC Support", the users were just left to get on with it. The guys who "installed" (brought the machine to a desk, plugged it all in, and turned the power on) had little clue beyond the power button and Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Perhaps it was different elsewhere? Anyway, just another case of "anything anti-Mainframe must be true, regardless of anything inconvenient like facts and knowledge". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
