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Old 19th May 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
The slice/partition notation should probably be reversed but I didn't invent the damn thing.
Let's put the blame where it belongs ...

UNIX came out long before DOS. UNIX used slices (of the disk) and partitions (in the slices) long before the PC came out.

Microsoft and IBM butchered things when they released DOS on the first PC.

When BSD was ported to the i386, they brought along the UNIX heritage.

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