SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Sun Mar 27 14:29:49 CST 2005


Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

>  -spc (Can't imagine *why* partition C needs to be the whole disk ... )
>  
>
It needs to 'C' the whole disk. All this talk of disks and MSDOS reminds 
me of when
I was looking at primeval C  online a few days back and the UNIX 
directory entry
was something like  char name[14], short unsigned int inode. While I 
don't know how
big a unix disk block is that is still about the range of DOS's limit of 
32 MEG/ disk.
It is only once you got windows DID C take up the whole disk and small 
computing
became BLOATWARE. The same thing in  hindsight seems to be what happened
with the VAX, and the 11 dropped.
It does seem odd that DEC had the better product with the PDP-11 and 
UNIX 10 years
before PC's came out yet missed the Personal Computer market totally.
Ben alias woodelf.




More information about the cctalk mailing list