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From: rcook@frumpy.helios.nd.edu
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Subject: Re: Zenith horror stories needed quickly, please
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Date: 30 Oct 90 22:40:01 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.041643.28052@nas.nasa.gov>, klee@nas.nasa.gov
(King M. Lee) writes:
|>In article <90298.191725BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
(Jeff Boyd) writes:
|>>
|>We have, at California State University, Bakersfield, had several 
|>hard disks go bad on one model of the 248 low profile computers.
|>
|>The major complaints that I have with Zenith is that is is not
|>100 percent compatible.  I have a Zenith 386/16  and I purchased
|>a memory card for it.  It didn't work because the Zenith did not
|>refresh I Meg chips the way others did.  Some of my colleagues
|>ran DOS 3.3 with hard disk partitions greater than 32 Meg.  
|>Some software did not run correctly (PC Tools) because DOS
|>3.3 has maximum partition size of 32 MBytes.  My, and I 
|>believe many other, computer has  slushware whereby ROM is
|>moved to high RAM for increased speed.  Unfortunately, I have
|>heard that this interfers with some software (LOTUS version 3 ?)
|>and the slushware cannot be turned off.  These unexpected 
|>features cost  me and my colleagues a great deal of time.
|>

Although I don't know about the rest of the stuff, PC-Tools version 5.5
or 6 will now work with the >32 Meg partitions on DOS 3.3+ or DOS 4.01. 
That was a problem with PC-Tools being written before big partitions
came into existence.  Since PC-Tools directly modifies the disk, it
wouldn't work once they changed the format of the boot sectors in order
to use big disks.  Norton Utilties had the same problem until they came
out with version 4.5.

Kelley Cook
rcook@darwin.cc.nd.edu