From: chukst Sun Sep 29 17:16:46 1991
To: mikedr; philba; scottq
Subject: Bambi on DR-DOS 6.0
Date: Sun Sep 29 17:16:39 1991
I tracked down a serious incompatibility with DR-DOS 6 - They don't use
the 'normal' device driver interface for > 32M partitions. Instead of
setting the regular START SECTOR field to 0ffffh and then using a brand
new 32-bit field the way MS-DOS has always done, they simply extend the
start sector field by 16 bits.
..
I've patched a version of Bambi to work with DRD6, and it seems to run
Win 3.1 without difficulty. This same problem may have caused other
problems with Win 3.1 and the swapfile under DRD6.
It is possible to make Bambi work, assuming we can come up with a
reasonably safe method for detecting DRD6.
..
What do you think? Should we test further with the patched Bambi to see
if there are any more incompatibilities?
From: philba Mon Sep 30 08:15:02 1991
To: bradsi
Cc: davidcol
Subject: Bambi on DR-DOS 6.0
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 91 07:57:50 PDT
hey, hey, hey ....
my proposal is to have bambi refuse to run on this alien OS, comments?
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_0981.pdf
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