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From: bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS is DOS ??
Summary: BIOS file names
Message-ID: <4066@rtifs1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 03:02:39 GMT
References: <1990Sep8.134722.4843@techbook.com> <4065@rtifs1.UUCP>
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In article <4065@rtifs1.UUCP>, bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes:
> I think relatively few manufacturers modify the MSDOS.SYS file (or
> whatever they choose to call it - IBM calls it the IBMDOS.SYS file)
> very much.  The IO.SYS file (what IBM calls IBMBIO.SYS) is another
> story ...

I'm not sure what was on my mind when I wrote this - on the IBM
of course these files are IBMDOS.COM and IBMBIO.COM (not .SYS).

Not that this changes anything substantive in the article ...

Sorry, I can't cancel it and repost it with corrections;  articles
can't be cancelled from rti (unless you're root).

						Bruce C. Wright