Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : R.A.G. Seely From : Jasen Betts Date : Sat Feb 09 2002 08:45 am From: Jasen.Betts@p42.f531.n640.z3.cereal.mv.com (Jasen Betts) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? Hi R.A.G.. 08-Feb-02 06:14:54, R.A.G. Seely wrote to Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.f RS> From: "R.A.G. Seely" RS> Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.fidonet.org wrote in RS> news:f0a4c6.4735fc@mach2.ab.ca >> Hi R.A.G.. RS> > >> 05-Feb-02 15:25:50, R.A.G. Seely wrote to Rolf Jentsch RS> > RS>> My first post in this debate explicitly mentioned "cassette RS>> basic", which was the CLI one got with the original "MS-DOS" RS>> (then PC-DOS) unless one hooked up an external floppy drive to RS>> one's PC RS> > >> How could one load ms-dos without a floppy drive? it was a user >> interface, but not to ms-dos. RS> Well - this was indeed before my days but my collegue told me that RS> those first PCs came with a cassette drive installed, and you RS> could indeed boot up dos from that and not from an external floppy RS> drive I can't immagine how ms-dos could funtion without a disk drive... RS> (of course there was no hard drive). If you did so, you got RS> a user interface to cassette basic "cassete" basic was in a rom on the PC... it didn't need to boot off a casette. you just turned on the pc and after the self-test there it was, no need to boot anyhthing, closest I've ever come to actual casette basic was when I booted a machine with no drive controller installed it went to 40 column mode and said "NO ROM BASIC" I also used an XT clone that was running pc-dos 2.2 so i guess that one had a basic rom as pc-dos 2.2 wouldn't boot on machines that didn't have it. RS> and that was as much an interface to dos dos where? ms-dos is pretty pointless without a disk of some sort. RS> Disclaimer: this is second hand (I had no PC of my own then), and RS> I may have misunderstood some of what my collegue told me. it seems that way.... -=> Bye <=- -- |Fidonet: Jasen Betts 3:640/531.42 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .