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- From: cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Golden Oldie
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 12:29:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1doa02INNrf0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Nov10.015307.17303@networx.com> <1992Nov5.152754.6605@fel.tno.nl>
- Reply-To: cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)
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-
- In a previous article, mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) says:
-
- >You'll find what you need to do this on the system master disk for DOS 3.3.
- >I' remember there was a program called "MUFFIN", but I can't recall if that
- >was the one. I remember something called "MASTER CREATE" that created a
- >master (ie bootable) disk unddder 3.3...
-
- Irresponsibly contributing to the endless trivia around here, I:
-
- Master Create took a disk which you'd initialised from the prompt (a
- "Slave disk") and converted it to a "Master disk" like the System
- Master. This was a throwback to the days when ]['s with less than 48k
- were in use...a slave disk was bootable, but only on a system with at
- least as much memory as the one it was initialised on (ie. it loaded DOS
- at the same location it had been written from). A master disk was
- intelligent enough to relocate DOS to the highest available place in
- memory.
-
- Back to the original question, Muffin was indeed the program to convert
- DOS 3.2 to 3.3. It's probably illegal to post, even though it's a
- twelve-year-old, 3k program. There was also Niffum for those stalwarts
- who just couldn't bear little red "16" apple stickers on their disks.
-
- Where did the names "FID" and "MUFFIN" come from anyway? I'm reliably
- informed that the former was not FIle Developer. And were there actually
- twelve versions prior to version "M", or is that part of the in-joke?
-
- Marc
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