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> It does not have any kind of support for custom file system device drivers This was true of MS-DOS 1.x and 2.x but not subsequently. The IFS layer was added
by lproven 2y ago
> It does not have any kind of support for custom file system device drivers
This was true of MS-DOS 1.x and 2.x but not subsequently.
The IFS layer was added in MS-DOS 3.1:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/_MSDOS_releases.txt http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/_MSDOS_releases.txt
Although Wikipedia claims MS-DOS 4:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System
- trollbridge 2y agoDOS 3.0 had the first “network redirector” support, which was also very buggy. It was rewritten for 3.1 (in an incompatible way) and that has been the standard since. 4.0 tried having a generic IFS which never caught on. Network clients preferred the old interface, and 4.0 was unpopular as it chewed up RAM compared to 3.30. 5.0 reverted to doing network redirectors exactly like 3.30 did.