[K12OSN] nfs problems, continued

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Tue Jul 6 20:39:03 UTC 2004


Wow what a memory ! I'm impressed ... :-)

norbert

les at futuresource.com wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 10:56, norbert wrote:
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>>Wasn't it MS-Dos 6  ? I believe that PC-DOS handled it in an earlier
>>version ... M$ was always solw to catch up & by the look of things it
>>hasn't changed much ....  :-D 
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>The way I remember it (which could easily be wrong too...) was that
>the MS version of 3.2 had a per-disk limit of 32 Megs, but vendors
>like Compaq and AT&T supplied versions that allowed multiple 32 Meg
>partitons on one disk.  3.3 was the MS version with the same. Then
>4.0 allowed bigger partitions but was so buggy it is best forgotten.
>Then Digital Research came out with DRDOS 5.0 that had some new
>nifty features like on-the-fly compression, partitions to 8 gigs,
>multitasking, etc.  Almost immediately after, MS released MSDOS 5.0
>with nearly identical features, but they later ended up buying the
>Stac Electronics company to make the lawsuits over stealing the
>compression code go away.
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>---
>  Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
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