Re: OT: hard drive limits Q

On 2006-12-24, Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote:

Just give up on MS DOS, it is of the past.


What if he needs it to run legacy software or hardware? Then Linux
won't do a damn thing for him.

that depends on the hardware most mainstream stuff and popular specialist
stuff is supported.

Bye.
Jasen
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