Re: Found something interesting re MS-DOS

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:10:25 +0000
Message-ID: <e266e5bb-0786-9309-c6fa-5446b99381a7@null.net>
On 04/01/2018 04:30, Mia Magnusson wrote:

> It seems like with this it could be possible to make a special CBM-II
> version of MS-DOS that is as compatible with PC as the stock MS-DOS 3.3
> (except for defragmentation utilities and similar stuff) but with the
> possibility to use more of the disks for DOS. Choose a combination of
> tracks, sectors and sides that gives a total number of sectors that
> line up good with the number of sectors that's on a CBM disk.

It shouldn't be that difficult to get MSDOS to boot off a non standard 
disk.

You don't even need the source code to format a non standard disk 
https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/075/Q75131/, although doing that 
with only one drive would be impractical.

Norton utilities (defrag, undelete etc) should be happy with it (some 
versions of it will work with ansi.sys/bios output) as it should get the 
geometry from MSDOS.



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