Timeline for Why did PC users need partitions in the 1980s
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| Mar 11 at 20:02 | audit | First questions | |||
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| Mar 6 at 16:38 | audit | First questions | |||
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| Mar 1 at 14:24 | audit | First questions | |||
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| Feb 27 at 16:23 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Dual boot certainly was a thing internally at MS, IBM and others for testing. | |
| Feb 27 at 10:35 | audit | First questions | |||
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| Feb 26 at 12:24 | comment | added | Ramhound | @telcoM - Yes, I know but it also applied to disks. | |
| Feb 26 at 11:04 | comment | added | teika kazura | In addition to the nice, accepted answer by jpa: MSX was a standard in early 1980s, and it had MSX-BASIC as its "os", hard-wired in rom. But MSX-DOS was also available, appeared in 1984, using a floppy disk. So it kind of supported two OS's, though it's not a dual boot. | |
| Feb 26 at 10:35 | comment | added | telcoM | @Ramhound On mainframes and large servers, "logical partitioning" can refer to partitioning not just the storage, but the entire server: for example, you might be able to split a 8-CPU server logically into two 4-CPU servers that will be able to run entirely separate operating systems in parallel. But this question seems to be about storage partitioning specifically. | |
| Feb 26 at 9:16 | comment | added | r2d3 | If you are doing research on the history of file systems why are you asking questions about the MBR? If you consider storage as a layered system with partition tables, file systems and files you are not operating on the right level. | |
| S Feb 26 at 0:24 | history | suggested | Andreas Rejbrand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25 at 18:34 | comment | added | Ramhound | Logical partitions has been a thing IBM has supported for decades with their mainframes, specifically, with MVS from 1974. | |
| Feb 25 at 18:10 | answer | added | jpa | timeline score: 38 | |
| Feb 25 at 16:33 | comment | added | tdelaney | DOS started with FAT12 and a maximum partition size of 16 MB., although I can't say that was the reason. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:56 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 25 at 10:21 | answer | added | harrymc | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 25 at 10:16 | answer | added | Greg Askew | timeline score: -12 | |
| Feb 25 at 8:21 | comment | added | AlexD | More suitable for retrocomputing.stackexchange.com | |
| Feb 25 at 8:17 | answer | added | AlexD | timeline score: 19 | |
| Feb 25 at 7:56 | history | migrated | from serverfault.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 25 at 5:11 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25 at 4:09 | answer | added | user10489 | timeline score: 22 | |
| Feb 25 at 2:45 | history | asked | Evert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |