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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: SCOTT LITTLE
date: 1997-04-02 15:50:00
subject: Test Results

 [ Quoting Mike Ruskai to Scott Little ] 
 SL> BTW, FAT32 is Win95 only. It doesn't work under MSDOS7. I assume
 SL> either DOS7 is (mostly) non-existant under FAT32, or FAT32 is truely a
 SL> complete IFS for Win95.
 MR> Nonsense.  IO.SYS was kludged to support it as well.  If not, they'd
 MR> break  over 80% of the "compatibility" Win95 has with ill-behaved DOS
 MR> programs. 
IO.SYS was modified so that it could find the files needed to boot Windows.
You cannot run the PC in MSDOS mode with FAT32, so IO.SYS doesn't contain the
full file system.
Regards,
 - Scott
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