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From: perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER
Keywords: FDC floppy device driver
Message-ID: <1993Mar11.094511.5939@marie.uucp>
Date: 11 Mar 93 09:45:11 GMT
References: <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com>
Organization: St Mary's Academy, Portland Oregon
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In <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

+ In article <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison) writes:
+ > even if a particular BIOS would take more than two [hard drives] I
+ > don't know that stock DOS would cooperate.

+ That wouldn't stop UNIX or PICK or Netware from taking advantage of them.

True, but the hardware manufacturers tend to assume that the lion's
share of their potential market is running DOS :-(

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