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Cleaned up the 5170 machines a bit (and eliminated some redundant ones)

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Jeff Parsons 2016-01-21 14:03:29 -08:00
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@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ There are also some Debugger improvements; for example, if you turn on "fdc" and
Debugger using the "m fdc on" and "m int on" commands, all FDC (INT 0x13) software interrupts will be logged,
including descriptions and register values.
PC-DOS 7.00 still can't be setup from its specially-formatted 1.84Mb [XDF](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xdf-diskette-format/)
distribution disk images, "PC-DOS 7.00 (SETUP Disk 2)" through "PC-DOS 7.00 (SETUP Disk 5)", so your best bet is to boot
from the 1.44Mb "PC-DOS 7.00 (Boot Disk)".
PC-DOS 7.00 still can't be setup from its specially-formatted 1.84Mb
[XDF](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xdf-diskette-format/) distribution disk images, "PC-DOS 7.00 (SETUP Disk 2)"
through "PC-DOS 7.00 (SETUP Disk 5)", so your best bet is to boot from the 1.44Mb "PC-DOS 7.00 (Boot Disk)".
Note that you must also use a fairly new 80286 machine configuration, like this [8Mhz IBM PC AT](/devices/pc/machine/5170/ega/1152kb/rev3/),
in order to use 1.44Mb diskette images; previous models did not support 3.5-inch diskette drives, unless they had been retrofitted
with a newer [BIOS](/devices/pc/bios/5170/).
Note that you must also use a fairly new 80286 machine configuration, like this
[8Mhz IBM PC AT](/devices/pc/machine/5170/ega/1152kb/rev3/debugger/),
in order to use 1.44Mb diskette images; previous models did not support 3.5-inch diskette drives, unless they had been
retrofitted with a newer [BIOS](/devices/pc/bios/5170/).
*[@jeffpar](http://twitter.com/jeffpar)*
*October 23, 2014*