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How Did MS-DOS Decide That Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid?

Accepted submission by upstart at 2019-09-25 00:41:38
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How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid? [microsoft.com]

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