Technical  pre-release version of  IBM-Dos Version 1


Maybe you've had enough of old “IBM Dos history" and would like something a bit more technical?   This link below is a pre-release version of “IBM-Dos Version 1”. With an in depth break down of parts of the file system and hidden information in the data found in the Slack Space. The “Slack Space” are sectors or parts of a sector on the disk that contain old deleted data that have not been written over by new data. What was found in this “Slack Space” was names of programmers that wrote this code, parts of messages and much more.

The article contains 6821 words, Readability level: 11-12th grade student.
http://thestarman.pcministry.com/DOS/ibm090/index.html

A lighter version of this article found at OS/2 Museum
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-dos-1-0-but-not-quite/

 

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