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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
Date: 11 Mar 1996 23:55:37 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) writes:

> How do you define "small"? 0.0 was publicly available on the net, but it 
> didn't grok FDISK partitions, so a lot of people who might have liked to 
> use it (like me) could not, not without abandoning their other partitions.

Well, i actually did.  I've done it like some people are still
treating Unix today: i've made a DOS boot floppy, and banned the DOS
to the second disk.  The primary disk was booting Unix. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)