Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!m.cs.uiuc.edu!knauer From: knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 on a hard drive. WHY? a reply Message-ID: <1991Apr9.041524.19594@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 04:15:24 GMT References: <15768@smoke.brl.mil> <14258@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: cassius.cs.uiuc.edu In <14258@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >In article <15768@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>In article steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: >>>cad it use DOS 3.3 or UniDOS 3.3. >>Why would you want to? > Why? So you can put scads and scads of old DOS 3.3 file games on >a hard drive instead of having to boot 'em off of a 3.5" disk or even (EGADS!) >a 5.25" drive. Another good reason to run DOS3.3 is (good enough for me, anyway): "Because you can." I still get a thrill out of turning off the mouse, putting the CPU in slow mode, and firing up Turbo Pascal or Wordstar under CP/M. Why? Because I can. I haven't seriously used either in 6 or 7 years, but it's neat to show people how the same machine that runs Nucleus and Rastan also boots Intbasic and runs Applevision. And although I suspect I'm not the arcade-game connoisseur that the Unknown User is, I do enjoy occasionally a couple rounds of Bolo or Snake Byte. :) Rob -- Robert C. Knauerhase University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "I get my exercise acting as Dept. of Computer Science, Gigabit Study Group pallbearer for my friends knauer@cs.uiuc.edu, rck@ces.cwru.edu who exercise..." knauer@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov