"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> said:
[...]
> My idea was based on information on page 179 of _Advanced
> MSDOS Programming_, second edition, by Ray Duncan, which stated
> that valid MSDOS boot sectors always started with one of these
> two patterns (in hexademical):
Grab a disk that was last used on a Sun, or Alpha, or whatever, and look.
Not every system is a PC running DOS-derived stuff.
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