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I have a Tandy 1000HX with an 8088-2 CPU running at 7.16MHz. The machine has the extreme minimum of DOS 2.11 in ROM for instant-on to DOS.
I have several upgrades I want to install this weekend: 384K RAM expansion card (for 640K total), Lo-Tech IDE controller and CF IDE adapter with a 4GB CF card. I am told it is best to format the "HD" media on the vintage machine as opposed to trying to do so on a modern PC. I am wondering which version of DOS I should go with for this.
I have the files for DOS 3.3 on-hand. My 1000TL had DOS 3.3 in ROM (286 with 768K RAM) back in the day. I see that DOS 4.0 provides support for partitions over 32MB in size. Perhaps going with several 32MB partitions is better than a small boot and large 2GB second partition for access speed? I will never come close to filling 1GB of data on this computer, so losing some card capacity is fine.
http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdosv.htm
I know nothing of which versions are more or less RAM hungry. Any suggestions here?
Thanks.
bp
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