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From: dlm@druco.ATT.COM (Daniel L. Moore)
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Subject: Re: Spectre and hard disks
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Date: 12 Dec 90 16:02:36 GMT
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in article <1990Dec11.171531.7192@csun.edu>,
cacsc083@mx.csun.edu (Paul Wick) says:
> Note that the older format Mac scheme of Spectre 2.65 and below has a
> maximum `disk' (Mac didn't really have partitions then) size of 32 Mbytes.
> Spectre 3.0 uses a format that allows Mac partitions of 256Mbytes.

	The 32 meg and 256 meg limits on partition sizes are actually
limits of the Spectre formatter.  Spectre supports much larger partitions,
as long as the disk is formatted on a Mac.

	Macs have always supported hard disk partitions.  But when
the original partition system was developed there was no reason to
partition a Mac disk since nothing existed to use other partition types
(no Unix(tm), etc.).



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druco.ATT.COM