Accessing partitions in drive images

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/31/2012 08:38 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>
>> Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be
>> sure.  But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
>> design by the infinite monkey method.
> You have insulted an infinite number of monkeys.  IBM used to
> publish the source codes for their BIOS in the little 3-ring
> binder full of docs they supplied with each PeeCee.  Let's be
> charitable and just say that they were clear evidence that
> the author(s) had little (if any) experience with assembler
> language programming or the 8088 architecture.  At best (we
> surmised at the time) they were an attempt to more or less
> blindly translate fragments of CP/M code from 8080 to 8088.
> Naturally, that glop was enshrined as a global standard...
We are still living in the shadow of the 8080. Limited registers (even
the x86-64). (I learned assembler on the PDP-8 :-)
Basically the PC-DOS was a hack in itself. There are many stories about
how Digital Research missed the boat there.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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