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From: msmith@proton.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 problems?
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.023409.14755@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 91 02:34:09 GMT

In article <1991May30.145455.29517@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers) writes:
>In article <798@ra.MsState.Edu> cee1@ra.MsState.Edu (The Chuckmeister) writes:
>>From the very first time I even heard of Micro$oft Windows 3.0, I was told
>>by a local computer building/selling store that I should NOT use it because
>>either [I can't rememeber] the HIMEM.SYS or SMARTDRV.SYS is buggy and would
>>eat up or screw up my FAT tables... any truth in this???
>>is there a newer version like 3.1 or 3.02 or something.
>
>Now...who should you trust, some pimply faced teenaged nerd working 'round
>the corner, or the millions of people using Windows who haven't screamed
>to Microsoft because of crashed disks?!?  (That's microsoft, the people who
>invented your PC FAT).
>
Well, actually if you use DO$ 3.2 with a hard disk bigger than 32 Meg and use
third party partion expanders (partions bigger than 32Meg) with window$ 3
you MAY, POSSIBLY, MIGHT BE ABLE TO, DEFINATE CHANCE OF A POSSIBLE MAYBE, 
trash your FAT table.  It's supposed to be well behaved under DO$ 4.