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From: ianh@spuddy.mew.co.uk (Ian Hastie)
Subject: Re: Booting MINIX 1.5
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In article <873314623.323541@optional.cts.com>, cwr@cts.com (Will Rose) wrote:
> 
> I've never had Minix (from 1.3 on) damage the MSDOS part of a 
> shared hard disk.

My impression is MSDOS is more likely to damage itself or the Minix
partition.  Since DOS does not allow for protected I/O or memory it is
more likely to allow bad user programs to overwrite things they
shouldn't be able to get direct access to since in DOS all programs
have the same effective access level as the OS.

Ian.

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