"intelligent" disk drives

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, woodelf wrote:
> > "Kilo" to be defined as 1024 than 1000 (2^10) etc.
> It still is.
> > Most operating systems I've used tend to agree....

MICROS~1 was inconsistent.  FDISK used 2 ^ 20 for MB, but other modules
didn't.  FORMAT calls the 1.4M diskette "1.44", indicating that it used
(2 ^ 10) * (10 *3)

> Other than windows ... it is 640K OS.

Windoze 3.10 required that there be some HIMEM.SYS RAM (80286, above 1M)
Windoze 95 required a 80386SX or above.
Windoze 98 would not install unless there was a math FPU.
Windoze XP can not run in the 16M max of an 80386SX

What does "Vista" require?


Note: The college that I work at was named "Vista College" for ~30 years.
Last year, when MICROS~1 announced Windoze Vista, the college changed its
name, to "Berkeley City College".