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Just checked and amusingly I'd forgotten that boot/root predated LILO, I must've first seen LILO when I installed Softlanding Linux. Since I didn't have any networking on my home machine, Linux was basically a "Look, run GCC on your home machine!" option for '91 that didn't involve going through DJGPP's DOS port.


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