-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 RJT> Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 
 
 RJT> Aha.  Sounds like a bit of norton utilities were used there,  or
 RJT> something of that sort. 
 
 LE> Yep, it was an old version of Norton. Probably version 2.

 RJT> I'd like to get my hands on some earlier versions,  probably have some
 RJT> remnants of bits here and there.  I do have version 8 (?) on hand and
 RJT> don't like it,  won't use it.  The thing created some sort of huge
 RJT> pile of hidden files,  and when I moved it from one place to another
 RJT> it stopped working.  I don't need that kind of nonsense. 

Odd. I don't recall too much of that, except for things like NCD, where
it's building "tables" so it doesn't have to rescann the whole drive
every time you start it.

 RJT> Which was which the way you did it?  I used 9 for com1 because maybe I
 RJT> was gonna use a serial mouse,  and 25 for com2,  which is where the
 RJT> modem plugs in.  I can't remember why it was I decided it had to go
 RJT> that way,  but I've been running it that way for ages.  Probably some
 RJT> early software issue or something. 
 
 LE> I don't recall. I think we went for 25 pin as COM 1 since that was
 LE> more apt to be the modem default, and the systems *had* PS/2 mouse
 LE> ports.

 RJT> I'm talking earlier stuff,  though.

Even there, COM 1 is more apt to be a default for modems, while serial
mouse drivers check COM 2 automatically after not finding it on COM1.
 
 
 
 LE> But since (as far as I know) there are no USB drivers for DOS
 LE> itself, you can use them without Windows. 

 RJT> And yet another way they're gonna force the issue,  or keep DOS on
 RJT> older hardware.  Oh well. 

Well, I expect USB drivers *could* be done for DOS. But the market is
pretty limited. And trying to get them to work on the sort of older
hardware that is "limited to" DOS just makes it even less likely to get
built.


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