> The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed > drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was > non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like > IDE. They did use a proprietary standard. They definitely worked on an > 80286, so I think we can conclude that CDROMs did not require an > 80386. I can remember some early Shareware CD's with stuff I couldn't > use because I only had a 80286. DJGPP springs to mind.
The very first CD players that came out for computers were proprietary and required hardware-specific drivers. Later on there were standards like ATAPI. That's at least part of the reason MS divided the CD software into two separate pieces -- the hardware-specific driver (there are tons of those) and MSCDEX and its clones. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
