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From: schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon?
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Date: 25 Jan 91 17:56:48 GMT
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In article <26492@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu 
(Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>
>Until the release of DOS 4.00 in 1989(?) the current standard, and a happy
>one at that, had been DOS 3.31.  However, DOS 4.00 addressed certain 
>problems that had been quite obvious with DOS 3.31, mostly that of a 
>lack of an installation program, lack of a friendly "DOS Shell", and
>the inability to support hard drive partitions greater than 32MB.  Well,
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think you mean DOS 3.30 here.  DOS 3.31 (e.g. COMPAQ) *does* support
partitions greater than 32 MB.


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