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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:25:52 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> no.top.post@gmail.com wrote on 11. June 2015:
>>
>> we can't be free of the crushing heel of M$.
>>
>> Government transactions which you must comply with don't follow *nix
>> [open standards].
>> You are forced to have an "up to date Microsoft compatible system".
> 
> Example program or application?
> 
>> So you just have a dual/multi-bootable system, with the first
>> partitions given to M$.
> 
> You can have Windows on a different than the first partition.
> 
>> That worked OK, until I needed to attatch a fd0 device for some unusual
>> reason.
> 
> Oh fd0? We're talking about the late 1980s/early 1990s and you run
> Windows 3. Finally all you say makes sense.
> 
Apparently not.
Is it difficult to understand that on a PC with the LATEST M$ [for
the FB/twitter mentality kiddies] one may need to investigate some
*UNRELATED* task which needs to connect a fd0, instead of getting
a separate PC?

> [...]
> 
> I guess you have messed up the partition table. (Probably) not even
> Microsoft's fault.

M$ *WANTS* non-M$ users to screw up, hence the concept "fault" can
no be applicable. Can you understand anything?