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From: john@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,micro.ibm
Subject: Re: Reading IBM-PC disks on Tandy 2000 -- HELP!!!
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Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 16:14:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  5 16:14:02 1984
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There are indeed several levels of compatibility with the IBM PC and XT.
Several magazine articles have addressed the issue, but the best article
I have seen is in the April 1984 PC World.

For example, MS-DOS 2.11 for the Texas Instruments PC will read and
write to IBM PC-DOS 2.00 disks.  Lotus 1-2-3 on an IBM PC can
make use of spreadsheet data from a TI PC.
MS-DOS 2.11 on a TI PC will successfully perform CHKDSK on
a data disk created under PC-DOS 2.00.  DIR works too.

The TI PC will not boot from PC-DOS, however.

As an example of a different kind of compatibility, consider the Seequa
Chameleon, which is largely hardware compatible with the IBM PC, but
is not compatible at the level of the serial port.  (Or at least that
is how I interpret the Seequa's inability to run several different
PC communications packages, including Crosstalk-16.)

john hogan
nc educational computing service
rtp, nc 27709
  (919) 549 0671

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