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From: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS/PC DOS?
Message-ID: <1664@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Nov-86 17:00:59 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.1664
Posted: Sat Nov  1 17:00:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 00:31:05 EST
References: <985@husc2.UUCP> <15200043@hpcvlo.UUCP> <3449@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher)
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
Lines: 35
Keywords: MSDOS PCDOS cluster size


In article <3449@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>>> There is one, very large and very important difference that I am aware of.
>>> MS-DOS and PC-DOS store their hard drive's directories in different
>>> sectors on the disk.
>
>I believe that this is an untruth (although I suppose that it might be
>true for SOME vendor's version of MSDOS).  I have a Tandy 1200, I run
>PCDOS 3.1 by default (on my hard disk), but occasionally boot with the
>MSDOS 2.1 floppy which came with the system, and I can access all the
>hard disk files just fine!

Interesting! I run Zenith MS-DOS 3.1. I can boot and run PC DOS 3.1 
with no problem. BUT attempts to access the 20 meg HD when booted
off of MS 2.1 are ng, because 3.x allows the smaller cluster size (please
no flames if it isn't clusters, but you get the idea).
David Lesher

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