Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > Hi, > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > >> There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical - > > >> trying > > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has > > > had several 5MB hard disks. > > > > > > I assume that what now is called partitioning came from the need to have > > > several disks to run a serious system. > > > > > > And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 users on > > > several 5MB disks. > > > > > > Erich > > Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And tax > > your memory as to when? > > it was DEC PDP-11 with a strange drive. One disk was fixed, one was > removable. This is the reason why it was easy to switch the operating system. > RL .. something like this was the disk name. >
I believe the 5MB removable were RL01. They also had a 10MB removable RL02, which we used for software distribution. We resold them to our customers at $170 each. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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