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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:38:08 -0500
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On September 18, 2005 1:34:29 PM +0200 dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> 
wrote:

> I know it is off topic, but I trust you guys in this group to just
> remember it.
>
> I'm building an old msdos machine for a little kid (very nostalgic).
> But I seem to rememeber that there was an issue about the space of the
> harddrive. Some kind of limit I don't remember. How large can a ms-dos
> partition be?
>
It's been a long time, but ISTR that there was a 540MB limit at one time.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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