Re: Golden Oldie

[cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)]

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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