what was it ?

Michael Abbott michael at araneidae.co.uk
Sun Sep 18 06:24:16 PDT 2005


On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I'm building an old msdos machine for a little kid (very nostalgic).
> But I seem to rememeber that there was an issue about the space of the
> harddrive. Some kind of limit I don't remember. How large can a ms-dos
> partition be?

Depends on how far back you're going.  If you go back to DOS 3 (my first 
DOS machine) then you're limited to 32MB (M, not G, of course).  My first 
hard disk was so enormous it had to be split into a 32MB C: partition and 
an 8MB D: partition.


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