On Monday, May 31, 2021 6:36 AM, Steve Nickolas usots...@buric.co wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
>> +1
>> Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
>> drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
>> they need. But that's just me. :)
>
> Personally, I'd go with the opposite: behavior compatible with MS-DOS 3.3
> ought to be the default because it's what most people would expect from
> software that has as its primary compatibility target Compaq MS-DOS 3.31
> (not sure if that's still accurate, it's certainly been a long time since
> I checked).
> ...
Right! I wasn't suggesting FreeDOS change - I get why it was originally done,
and that FreeDOS has to do it to mimic the behavior of any other DOS. I simply
meant that I've always thought it should be optional, even back in the MS-DOS
days.
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