From: Jerry Coffin
JC>  Unless you have something _really_ exotic, it should still
JC>  be able to run DOS.

    Sure.  But be aware that your multi-GigaByte hard drive will
 be mostly useless with the old DOS due to limitations of the OS
 in keeping track of storage sectors.  DOS 6.2 was a sixteen bit
 system, and used sixteen bit addressing for the most part.  If I
 recall properly, DOS 5.0 could only handle drives less than 512MB
 in size, and 6.2 wasn't a whole lot better.  You also can not do
 a FAT32 format and expect it to work with DOS later without first
 reformatting in FAT16 and partitioning without large drive support
 being active.  Of course, you can run DOS 6.2 from a bootable
 internal IDE Zip drive without any problems, I would imagine.
 That would make a dual boot system pretty simple to manage!  :)

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>  What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature,
>  when he had a chance!

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