[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems
tet at accucard.com
tet at accucard.com
Wed Dec 12 11:56:02 UTC 2001
>>Surely other OSs must have had the need for multiple partitions before
>>MS thought of it?
>
>Yes, but not on PC hardware.
Replying to myself...
Unix on PC hardware (pre-Linux) has traditionally used a single BIOS
partition, and subdivided that up using its own partitioning scheme
to get the required number of partitions. SCO and the BSDs do/did
this.
Tet
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