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Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth

From Alan Bowler <alantbowler@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth
Date 2025-09-29 14:07 -0400
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References (1 earlier) <108pdt7$19vio$2@dont-email.me> <lRh*luGlA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <1099idc$2p7ii$1@paganini.bofh.team> <109hrjb$153s$1@gal.iecc.com> <109ibrg$3a10s$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2025-09-06 6:16 p.m., Peter Flass wrote:
> 
> Definitely not. In my day DOS had three partitions. Batch ran in BG, but 
> FG1 might run a spooler or a simple TP program like MTCS. Now there are 
> more partitions, but no more /30s.
> 
Sounds more like how people ran DOS on 360/40s

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Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Alan Bowler <alantbowler@gmail.com> - 2025-09-29 14:07 -0400
  Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-09-29 12:57 -0700
    Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-29 23:12 -0400

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