Where I worked, my section first got a 'hand me down' 8088 XT Clone when our boss got a 286.
When the boss got a 386, the 286 came our way.
My section used those PCs to send Morning and Evening reports to another office.
Myself, I thought the 286 seemed slower saving downloads than the 8088 clone had.
The 286 had a faster CPU and bigger Harddrive, but to me I wasn't as comfortable using it as I was with the first computer we used.
Later again, the 386 was put on our desk.
I was using the Commodore 64 system at home while learning to use DOS at work on those 3 computers.
My first DOS PC at home had DOS 5.0 , I couldn't get interested in wanting the early release's of DOS 6 .
But that's Me.
Sorry, tapped wrong area on this phone.
Last message to You was same as My I.Q. ZERO.
Ed
My first DOS PC at home had DOS 5.0 , I couldn't get interested in
wanting the
early release's of DOS 6 .
But that's Me.
Blue White wrote to Ed Vance <=-
IIRC, the early versions of DOS 6 were not a big improvement over DOS
5.0 and were actually buggy.
IIRC, the early versions of DOS 6 were not a big improvement over DOS 5.0
and were actually buggy.
Buggy in a serious way -- early disk compression software had some serious issues and ate filesystems occasionally.
Also, I remember hearing about a lawsuit against Microsoft because they apparently used code from another product (I believe it was Stacker) for their DoubleSpace disk compression software. Microsoft removed DoubleSpace in MS-DOS 6.21, and then added DriveSpace in MS-DOS 6.22, from what I recall.
I remember the AddStor/Stacker/Doublespace/Drivespace days well. Tried running the BBS with Superstor for a while, worked OK - especially since
We had people here trying to flog systems with "160Mb"
HDs in them, which for
the most part turned out to be 80Mb MFM's that had compression added. Back when 160Mb was still a large drive..
The 'big' disks, due to compression, didn't work out so well for making more space for BBS file downloads! (amongst other issues, of course)
Disk compression was rather ... underwhelming ... when storing a bunch of .ZIP files. :)
Honestly though, the times I used DriveSpace and it didn't destroy all my data, it did seem like magic - more disk space for FREE!
Where I worked, my section first got a 'hand me down' 8088 XT Clone when our boss got a 286.
When the boss got a 386, the 286 came our way.
Drive compression has its issues.. It generally slows down the
computer, and there was one time for me when DOS booted up and the
drive compression driver didn't load for some reason, so I couldn't
access my files. I don't remember what I had to do to fix that..
Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
We had people here trying to flog systems with "160Mb" HDs in them,
which for the most part turned out to be 80Mb MFM's that had
compression added. Back when 160Mb was still a large drive..
Were those RLL drives? They used a special controller to write more sectors per track on MFM drives.
The bug, of course, is constraining to the length of the user
supplied password; the effect was that entering _no_ password
automatically authenticated the password (empty strings always
compare equal).
That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by accident!
The bug, of course, is constraining to the length of the user
supplied password; the effect was that entering _no_ password automatically authenticated the password (empty strings always
compare equal).
That's pretty shocking... a good proportion of people would find that by accident!
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