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From: fredb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Fred Buechler)
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Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
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Date: 6 Sep 89 21:14:28 GMT
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In article <9764@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> wnbell@sybil.UUCP (William Bell) writes:
>terribly. Case-in-point: MS-DOS 3.3 can only "See" 
>up to 32 MByte of storage at one time due to limitation
>on FAT. 4.01 can "see" very-very large MB. Which is why
>I chose MS-DOS 4.01 for 277R with 1 65.5 MB partician!!!

DOS 4.xx also has a slightly different way that it sets up the parameter
block in the boot sector of large partition hard disks. It uses a 32 bit
format for some of the info instead of 16. A few of the DOS service routines
will return 32 bit quantities instead of the 16 bit quantities in DOS 3.3.

IF you are running DOS 4.xx, you need to carefully check out ANY and ALL
software that may directly manipulate the disk or you're begging for
trouble!!

-- fredb.