Timeline for Why did PC users need partitions in the 1980s
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| Feb 27 at 6:43 | comment | added | user207421 | My company encountered significant pressure to port our product to MS-DOS from about 1985 and we had PCs on the desk from around 1986. And we were in Australia, which was very slow to adopt MS-DOS. | |
| Feb 26 at 0:32 | comment | added | user10489 | I think the view represented in this answer is only true in a very narrow industrial environment. Doesn't make it wrong, just narrow. | |
| Feb 26 at 0:21 | comment | added | Evert | What alternate reality are you from! Also completely missed the mark with your answer. | |
| Feb 25 at 20:01 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | Even if true, nothing in this addresses the asked question. | |
| Feb 25 at 18:25 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25 at 11:19 | comment | added | AlexD | Standard 20-40 MB HDD in the late 80s was quite a lot of storage. You could run a lot of software other than WordPerfect - 1-2-3, dBase, Norton Commander, Turbo Pascal and not counting games. | |
| Feb 25 at 10:16 | history | answered | Greg Askew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |