From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Windows ME and DJGPP
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:44:43 -0500
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
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> > In ME, the only "allowed" way of getting
> > into real DOS is a boot floppy. And that, IMHO, does qualify as a pain.
>
> I think it is easier (certainly safer) than patching IO.SYS.

Yep. I program some stuff for PMode PL#0 and use a floppy... No problem. If
it was an old computer that booted very slow, it would be a problem. But
since it's a fast one, no problem to boot 3 files from floppy.

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