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From: ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
Message-ID: <1993Jan13.135317.20823@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 93 13:53:17 GMT
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In <1993Jan13.102710.26478@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins) 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.
>And extra RAM to have DOS and the resident part of the command-line
>interpreter resident in memory.
I was clearing still suffering from Post Festive Season Stress Disorder
when I made that last comment. It should have been obvious to me that
once loaded BSD can trample over DOS if it so wishes. After all Novell
(SPIT) has been doing it for years.
Cheers,
Adrian
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Adrian Collins, MCC Network Unit, The University, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
(061)-275-6009 or for those of the computer age: ade@mcc.ac.uk
"How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on"