On 10/29/2016 09:06 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Starting with 2.00? there was a version number buried in the code, > and the VER command would print some text, and then calculate what > to display for the numbers (major version, period, minor version as a > 2 digit decimal number.0 (19h gave .25) But, if 1.25 didn't have > that, then somewhere in COMMAND.COM, there might be text saying > "MS-DOS 1.25", instead of the later ""MS-DOS ", to be followed by > calculated values. Did 1.25 have ANSI.SYS and CONFIG.SYS? > > For somebody who remembers the detaails of the transition, many of > the text messages in COMMAND.COM might be recognizable.
My recollection of 1.25 was that it had foreign language (at lead code-page type support) where 1.1 did not. It lasted longer than it should have. --Chuck
