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hm_murdock:
then Mac OS X aint really UNIX either. It's NeXTStep!

Calum:
you're darn tootin'!

Here's a flow chart diagram showing how each of the *major* unices relate to each other.

[edit - according to that diagram, macosx is based on mach 3 which is based on 4.2BSD, but i personally don't know.]

[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum & his insidious little spies ]

HighLamb:

quote: Posted by Calum & his insidious little spies:
I like mandrake but i hope to one day have a hard drive big enough to boot many different systems, hopefully including FreeDOS, Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Windows 3.1 for workgroups(!) and BeOS. I'd like...  
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As I know, All the M$ OSes: M$-DOS and  Windozes 9X/NT cannot be booted beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary. This is the biggest fault of Microsoft. If you really want to do mulit boot, you need to install DOS/NT at the very first place.

Calum:
hmm. well i don't need any other MS system except windows 3.1 in my imaginary multiboot setup, since it will be on a computer with an EIDE or SCSI CDwriter (USB cdwriter being the only reason i need windows right now). Therefore, i can put MSDOS on the first 300MB, FreeDOS on the next 300MB, and then carry on from there. And to think a few years ago people were moaning about how LiLo was so retarded for having this exact same flaw.

Also, i find it hard to believe that that is windows' greatest flaw...

flap:
Just out of interest, why do you want to run dos/windows?

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