Timeline for Were 9.2 file names possible in MS-DOS?
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 16:58 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Link to Jerome Shidel’s copy of RBIL instead of the sometimes NSFW ctyme.
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| Nov 13, 2020 at 21:10 | history | edited | user3840170 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | JustinCB | The max partition size in DOS is 2GB, but some BIOS's had a limitation around 500 megabytes. I've used MS-DOS on more modern systems, & it hasn't had a problem with 2GB partitions(of course, it can't use partitions greater than 2GB because of a limitation in FAT16). | |
| Jun 27, 2018 at 13:40 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @Χpẘ it was 512MB or 800MB or something like. It was caused by the incompatible intersection of limits in DOS and BIOS. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | Χpẘ | @ctrl-alt-delor I don't remember. MSDOS with FAT16 and a 8192 byte logical sector size would give 512MB (64K*8192) max partition size. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | Mark | @ctrl-alt-delor, the limit was 504 MB (or 528 MB if you're working in metric). 1024 cylinders * 16 heads * 63 sectors * 512 bytes per sector = 528 482 304 bytes. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 20:10 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | That reminds me. Do you remember a 512MB limit on hard-disks, because of a limitation on the PC-BIOS. No one sold cheep IDE any bigger than 512MB. My Amiga had a limit of several terabytes per file. So I wanted a bigger drive, but could not get one. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 19:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 26, 2018 at 19:53 | history | answered | Χpẘ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |