On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:51, Felix Miata wrote: > ed tharp wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > 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 > > That was M$ in March 1993, which has nothing to do with what I wrote. > DOS 6 boot menu is about choosing different configurations for one OS on > one partition. No kernel switching or choosing is involved. > > IBM's first public distinction dates to the April 1992 release of the > IBM Boot Manager in OS/2 2.0, which provided the option to install > several operating systems on several partitions and choose among them > via menu on each boot. This was provided as an alternative to installing > OS/2 on the same partition as DOS, the dual boot option. > > The conception of IBM Boot Manager apparently dates back to 1983, when > IBM first planned to have DOS and Xenix coexist on its PCs.
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