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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:21:59
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: karl@NeoSoft.com's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10:04 GMT
In article <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>The only drawback is you'd need a DOS partition or floppy to do it that
>way, no biggie but possibly offensive to purists.
<chuckle>
Karl, you get the understatement of the year award...
not only is that a *nasty* solution, but given the state
of the DOS partition code (i.e. UGLY as all hell),
it's only nastier...
and i don't wanna have to put DOS on my disks... that's cruel
and unusual punishment!!! 8-)
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark