On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: > > > > Run Windows and Linux from same boot partition = Dualboot > > > > Run Windows and Linux different partitions on the same PC = Multiboot > > > Huh? I thought the difference between dualboot and multiboot was the > > number of systems? Dualboot= 2 different systems, multiboot = more than > > 2 different systems. > > Yes, dual does mean 2 - 2 exactly. But, multi means more than 1. So, the > two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. The > difference is multiboot uses some type of boot manager that is capable > of switching among two *or more*, while dualboot is crude, normally > incapable of more than two. > > AFAIK, IBM first made the distinction back before Torvalds' kernel was > first used for GPL operating systems, sometime around 1987 I think, > certainly by 1990. Dos 6, with a boot menu, iirc
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