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   Rod Pemberton to Grant Taylor   
   Re: BEL   
   13 Dec 21 05:31:18   
   
   From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:34:02 -0700   
   Grant Taylor  wrote:   
      
   > On 12/7/21 11:56 AM, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > > What specifically was wrong with it when 2.0 was released in 1983?   
   >   
   > Did (MS|PC)-DOS 2.x support hard drives?   
      
   My notes say that MS-DOS 2.00 is the first version that supported hard   
   disks.   
      
   > If it did, did it support file systems larger than 32 MB?   
   > (I don't remember when the features were added.)   
      
   In general, I don't information on the capacity of hard disks by MS-DOS   
   version.  Usually, you can find a list of capacities by FAT type.   
      
   My notes say FAT12 was MS-DOS 1.00, FAT 16 was MS-DOS 3.00, and up to   
   2GB FAT 16 (primary partition) was MS-DOS 4.00.   
      
   > I know that the underlying features required for networking and   
   > CD-ROM support (which abuses the networking feature) were added in   
   > DOS 3.x. Hence why you see DOS 3.x as the minimum requirement on a   
   > lot of things.   
      
   According to my notes, MS-DOS 3.10 was the first version with   
   networking, not 3.00.   
      
   I wouldn't doubt it if Wikipedia has a page with a list of DOS features   
   by version to confirm.  I didn't check, but I'm 98% certain it's there.   
      
      
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