Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:06:57 Robert Bonomi wrote: > Erich Dollansky <er...@alogreentechnologies.com> wrote: > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > AHA. probably an 'RL-05', cousin to the better known "RK-05" > > 14" media, in a 'cartridge'. I -think- it was an 'SMD' interface
14" could be true as it just fitted into a 19" rack. SMD? I have no idea. It was something others did not use I have known then. SCSI came only later, ST506? Did it exist already? Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
