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From: morash@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Morash)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 20:38:28 GMT
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In article <7kkqs6w163w@halcyon.uucp> ralphs%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu writes:
>dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:
[stuff about large volume support in special versions of dos 3.3
typically relabelled 3.31 deleted]
>
>COMPAQ was one of these.
I believe COMPAQ did this by increasing the sector size. It would seem
that this is somewhat of a trade off, between a larger partition
and "wasted space" from the larger sectors.  

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