Accessing partitions in drive images

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/01/2012 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
> <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
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>     On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>     > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall
>     <maddog at li.org <mailto:maddog at li.org>> wrote:
>     >>>   I started looking into this more today, and quickly
>     rediscovered how
>     >>> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.
>     >> The IBM PC was released in 1981.  You expected something other than
>     >> "kludges"?
>     >   Heh.  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.  As much as I live and play in
>     > the IBM-PC world... much like laws and sausage, it's best not to
>     look
>     > too closely at the innards.
>     Compare the Apple model to the IBM model.
>     Apple model is closed and controlled by one company.
>     The IBM-PC was open. Many manufacturers of systems, mother boards, and
>     just about every thing else. So it kind of falls into the infinite
>     monkey paradigm.
>
>     But, as new technology comes around you will get kludges. Remember the
>     640K memory limitation. There were all sorts of kludges to expand
>     memory
>     on the PC.
>
>
> Actually, the IBM-PC was following the Apple ][.   Jobs hadn't gotten
> into his control everything mode yet and Woz put the full schematics
> and ROM in the back of the user manual.  That manual managed to teach
> new users (who to be fair, were more technical than today's average
> user) and get into the full technical detail that us geeks want.
>
> Nowadays manual are written on drool proof paper and I often wonder if
> the author & developer ever saw the software on anything but a fresh
> Windows XP sp2 install.  Or worse, the daily desktop they used that
> looks nothing like a standard system.
>
They did follow the Apple ][ bus architecture. I had the handwritten Woz
stuff in the manual. I unfortunately gave the old manual the the BCS
Apple ][ group.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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