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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:48:25 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fdisk.c
Message-ID:  <199810311248.OAA06959@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810311049.CAA10189@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Oct 31, 98 02:49:25 am"

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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> I was looking at my source tree and found this, left over from the
> time I was looking at new Windoze partition types.  Can people comment 
> on this?
> 
> I believe the "/" and "/usr" of XENIX is actually a boot partition
> vs. regular filesystems.  Also, Concurrent CPM, if it has anything to
> do with CP/M, should be spelled that way.

Descriptions from two authoritative Internet sources:

    o  Ralf Brown's Interrupt List

       02h  XENIX root file system
       03h  XENIX /usr file system (obsolete)

    o  Hale Landis, "How It Works" series

       02   XENIX root
       03   XENIX user

    Landis apparently obtained the official partition type lists from
    Microsoft and IBM in compiling his list.

However, XENIX is fairly long defunct; so maybe this is just academic,
though.

Concurrent CP/M (aka CCP/M) was indeed a version of Intergalactic
Digital Research's CP/M operating system.  Rather strangely, it later
formed the basis of DR-DOS (briefly OpenDOS), the MS-DOS clone now
distributed by Caldera.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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