IBM PC disks

kjh at pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN) writes:

> What do MS-DOS users do when they want to use a disk larger than 32 MB?
> Do they partition the physical disk into many logical disks of 32MB or
> smaller?  Do they use a seperate device driver that uses memory?
> [Perhaps do they abandon MS-DOS in favour of Xenix? :-)]
> 
> What do people do when they want to use a large disk for both MS-DOS and
> Xenix?  Do they use the MS-DOS fdisk program to set up the partitions?
> Does Xenix come with a similar program?  Does the Xenix version of this
> program have the ability to set up partitions on MS-DOS disks?
> 
> Is there any way in MS-DOS to get around the 32 MB limit?

When MS-DOS users want >32MB partitions they upgrade to DOS 4.01, which
can handle partitions comfortably up to about 150 MB and less
comfortably (due to system allocation table growth) for a long ways
beyond that.