Date   : Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:34:19 +0100
From   : Andrew Benham <adsb@...>
Subject: Re: 80186 board in master

Joel Rowbottom wrote:

> I came across one of these in a collection I acquired a while back, 
> complete with a 30M Technomatic Winchester which had been "treated" to 
> dual-boot depending on whether the 512 board was "on" or not - it's 
> quite a party trick doing *CO.TUBE and then rebooting into DOS and GEM!

I think that "dual-boot" is implying too much sophistication.  There's
no partition table or any 'modern' concept like that.

You boot with the Internal Tube enabled and the machine runs $.DosBoot,
which then treats the file $.Dos.DRIVE_C as the image of the DOS+
filing system.

-- 
Andrew Benham         adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill"