From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 11:33:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7151437B403 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com ([24.141.119.162]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010916183343.QQQT9104.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:33:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8GIdOU72621; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:39:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Fergus Cameron , Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010916140733.M72501-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Sep 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Someone wrote: > > > > there IBM partitions on your disk. > > Anyone know the history of IBM-PC hard disk partitions? What this scheme > developed by IBM for their BIOS or by M$ for their M$-M$DOS and IBM-PCDOS, > or can we fairly call it a true conspiracy by both (to give people grief > well into the 21st Century)? Hi Gary, Don't know if this totally satisfies your curiosity, but there's some interesting reading here: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5711/history.html http://www.maxframe.com/HISZMSD.HTM http://x86.ddj.com/articles/computalk/help.htm I think it had a lot to do with how many instructions would fit. There's a more technical article here: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/partitions/partition_types-2.html Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message