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echo: alt_dos
to: Lance Lyon
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2004-04-16 00:56:10
subject: Re: DOS on large hard drives

-=> Quoting Lance Lyon to Ben Ritchey <=-

 LL> Obviously, you could
 LL> probably only go as far  as about 40gb using native DOS, after that,
 LL> you run outta drive  letters :-(

Oddly enough, with DOS 2.x you could have up to *32* drives with the
right drivers.

We ran a networking setup that used a "disk server". Since DOS 2.x had
no LAN support, the thing was set up to let you create virtual "disks"
up to several meg each on the server and mount and umount that as
needed. 

Since there was no real network support in DOS, you had to mount drives
as either "sharable, read only" or "exclusive, read/write".

But the fun part was that you could assign drives {at}:, [:, ]:, ^:
and _:. I think you could even assign \:


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