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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0
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Date: 27 Jul 88 11:59:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: <611@wa3wbu.UUCP>

In article <611@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
}disk partitions larger than 32 MB but........   Is the new version truely
}allowing more than 65535 total sectors or is it playing some "hidden"

If it uses the COMPAQ DOS 3.31 method, it truly allows more than 64K sectors,
but loses compatibility with a lot of disk-maintenance software because the
INT 25h and INT 26h direct-read/direct-write interface has changed.

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