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[–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

CD drivers did exist for DOS and you could absolutely boot up a system with one or two floppies, and one optical drive. MSCDEX.EXE was apparently what allowed you to connect to the optical drive.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    You're totally right. You could put DOS on one floppy and the driver on the other or just load it into RAM.

    https://archive.org/details/dos-with-cd-rom-support

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    I never did it - by the time I had an optical drive, I had hard drives - but I kinda wish I had such a system. So wild to have like 500 times the data on a CD (much less DVD) than the floppied you booted from! lol.

    Imagine the chaos if you could write to multi-writable CDs, too. lol. THat would have been wild.

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