From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:35:43 -0500 (EST)
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To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: * [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:

> > > > And a question:
> > > > I read (in the mailing list) that a harddisk can only supprt 4
> partitions.
> > > > But is this a hardware limit or a software limit?
> > > 
> > > Hardware.
> > 
> > SOFTWARE!  MBR Limitation!
> 
> Allright...who's right?

The BIOS firmware.  The point being that it isn't the OS that
decides how many primary partitions there are.

> BTW please don't start a
> "4-partition-hard/software-limit-I'm-right-'coz-I'm-smarter-than-you-are-thr
> ead" :-)

Who said smarter?  I didn't even know how to install LILO to
/dev/hda3.  :o) 

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