>> Paul B. Webster VK2BZC wrote:
>> > <snipped>
>> > anyway?  How many people have even seen a version 2.x?


DOS 2 was what we all used before hard disks arrived - remember then?
Maybe most don't :-)

No - on reflection DOS 2 added hard disks, DOS3 added networks, DOS 4
added lots of fat, less speed and general un-niceness, DOS 5
corrected DOS 4, DOS6.0X  added double space, DOS 6.2X took Double
Space away again and added Drive Space. (Maybe not quite right -
fairly close I think).

Somewhere in my laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge collection of olllllllllllld
360K 5.25" floppys I have a real bootable DOS 1 diskette (maybe more
than 1). I don't know which one it is and they are probably mostly
unreadable now due to fungal attack (which happens to floppy surfaces
if allowed to live in other than dry conditions!).

I'd like to locate and recover it one of these days as a memento of
the "good old days".
I'm joking of course (about the good old days - not about the DOS 1)
but can you now imagine a system that would actually load DOS AND run
a program with 16 KB RAM total. That was the original IBM PC.
(Someone will tell me that this was only possibly with the floppy
version - you needed 32K or 64K to boot DOS - dunno, may be so) - OK
ever seen a 64K system that could .... ?





Russell McMahon