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The 2.0 Release of MSDOS includes five 5 1/4 double density single sided
diskettes or three 8 iinch CP/M 80 format diskettes.
diskettes or three 8 inch CP/M 80 format diskettes.
The software/documentation on the five inch diskettes is arranged
as follows:
1. DOS distribution diskette. This diskette contains files which
should be distriibuted to all users. This allows the DOS distri-
should be distributed to all users. This allows the DOS distri-
bution diskette to meet the requirements of users of high level
language compilers as well as users running only applications.
Many compilers marketed independently through the retail channel
(including those of Microsoft) assume LINK comes with the DOS, as
in the case of IBM. How you choose to distrubute BASIC (contracted
in the case of IBM. How you choose to distribute BASIC (contracted
for separately) is up to you.
2. Assembly Language Development System diskette. This diskette
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the skeltal BIOS source code and the SYSINIT and SYSIMES object
modules which must be linked with your BIOS module. The proper
sequence for linking is BIOS - SYSINIT - SYSIMES.
A profiler utiliity is also included on the diskette, but this
A profiler utility is also included on the diskette, but this
is not intended for end-users. This is distributed for use by
your development staff only and is not supported by Microsoft
If you do decide to distribute it, it is at your own risk!
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ with IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS). This includes the use
of "\" instead of "/" as the path separator, and "/" instead of "-"
as the switch character. For transporting of batch files across
machines, Microsoft encourages the use of "\" and "/" respectively
in the U.S. market. (See DOSPATCH.TXT for how you can overide this.
in the U.S. market. (See DOSPATCH.TXT for how you can override this.
The user guide explains how the end-user can override this in CONFIG.SYS).
Both the printer echo keys and insert mode keys have now been made to
toggle. The default prompt (this may also be changed by the user
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available in several months.
4. COMMAND.ASM is currently too large to assemble on a micro. It is
being broken down into separate modules so it can be asembled on
being broken down into separate modules so it can be assembled on
a machine. Source licensees should realize that the resultant
binaries from the new version will not correspond exactly to the
old version.