Re: FDISK

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From: Harry Broomhall
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00

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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:50:42 +0100, Tom Bird
<hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[SNIP]
>
>I think it's a LBA thing, when they broke the 504Mb barrier (with LBA),
>they decided that the next barrier would be 8Gb but as it was
>*impossible* that anyone should want more than 1 or 2Gb, they decided to
>cross that bridge when they got there.  They got there last year.

  Nope.  See my posting.  The 8Gb limit was inherent in INT13 from the
very beginning.

  Regards,
         Harry.

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