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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
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Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
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Date: 13 Jan 93 23:10:45 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Jan12072159@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>,
cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> 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
> --
> 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
Maybe it is better to have a kludgy but working 386BSD system than to be
stuck with only DOS. Your own signature implies this kind of compromise. 8-)
I would not like to see this idea die before I have heard some discussion on
it first.
--
Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.