From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 11:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F1137B411 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8IIo6o14039; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:50:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200109181850.f8IIo6o14039@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Fergus Cameron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker In-Reply-To: Your message of "16 Sep 2001 10:11:44 PDT." From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:50:06 -0400 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 gary gyrated, > 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)? In a nutshell, there were four OS choices available: CP/M, PC-DOS, p-system (Pascal), and something else I've long forgotten. Why would you need more than 4 partitions :) hakw -- rm -rf /bin/laden Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message