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Re: Hard Disk limitations

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From: Ralph P. Sobek
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1988 17:40
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In article <76253@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> The original 68K GEM inherited the 32Mb hard disk partition
> limit from MS-DOS, there was also a sixteen partition limit once but I 
> believe that it is now 26 (A-Z).

The question that this bring to mind is what is the limit on the
number of GEM desktop icons for partitions/drives?  Can one have 26
drive/partition icons up on the screen at the same time?
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From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk limitations
Summary: Desktop Limit?
Message-ID: <119@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 14 Nov 88 17:40:05 GMT
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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