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be paired with the IBM 5160, known colloquially as the IBM XT.
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DOSContainer uses this version of DOS as the reference for version 2.00. The original does seem to contain
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a bug that's hard to replicate as well as unwanted. When formatting a disk, the FORMAT command seems to
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a bug that's hard to replicate as well as unwanted. When formatting a disk, the \texttt{FORMAT} command seems to
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inject a number of seemingly random bytes towards the end of the FAT tables. This could lead to the OS
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erroneously thinking we're running out of space while that isn't the case at all. I chose not to implement
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this behavior as it's absolutely detrimental to the user experience.
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/alleycat.jpg}
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\caption{Introduction screen of Alley Cat.}
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\end{figure}
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\author{Bas v.d. Wiel}
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\tableofcontents
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\input{intro.tex}
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\part{User manual}
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\input{cli_ref.tex}
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XT era would have two rotating platters on a spindle. Each platter would have a read/write head on both sides, adding up to a total of 4 heads
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inside the assembly.
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\begin{figure}[h]
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/chs_geom.jpg}
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\caption{Graphical representation of the CHS geometry. Image courtesy of Lion Kimbro, copied from Wikipedia.}
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\end{figure}
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The mechanism is capable of moving the heads between the center and the outer edge of the platters in steps. The number of
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discrete steps that the mechanism is capable of, adds up to the number of cylinders. A cylinder describes the concentric circles that the heads
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would trace when they are set to a specific cylinder value. A single such circle is called a track, which in turn is divided into sectors. On our
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