Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <20010916140733.M72501-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <ejitej6oxb.tej@localhost.localdomain>
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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
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