Thank you, Howard.  I guess I will have to build a small Dos PC.  I do have=
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an old (very old) laptop with Win95.  Would Dos run on it?


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From: "Howard Winter" <HDRW@h2org.demon.co.uk>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: OT DOS


> Russell,
>
> Wot, no tag?  :-)
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 03:53:30 +1200, RussellMc wrote:
>
>>...
>> Some systems support boot-from-USB but DOS itself won't talk USB so
>> you'd need s somewhat special system or unusual [tm] drivers.
>>
>> AFAIR DOS per se never did, WIN95a did it terribly and WIN95B was the
>> first Windows with decent USB support.
>
> I have a feeling you're a couple of versions out - I think it was Win98 S=
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> that was the first to support USB decently.  I remember seeing USB for th=
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> first time at
> COMDEX in the mid/late 90s, and MS ignored it for a good couple of years=
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> after that.  I saw Firewire at about the same time, and MS ignored that=20
> even more!  Such a
> shame that it "lost out" to USB, much in the way the VHS/Beta thing went.=
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> I seem to be the kiss of death to any new and decent technology - if I=20
> think it's great, it
> dies soon after (you should see my collection of SyQuest drives and=20
> disks...).
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
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