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minus-squareKhanzarate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 month agoFloppy disk drive. A and B were reserved and your first hard disk drive was C. The two disk drives had fixed memory addresses because they were often specific ports on the motherboard, and loaded the OS, etc. Things after that were more dynamic.
Floppy disk drive.
A and B were reserved and your first hard disk drive was C.
The two disk drives had fixed memory addresses because they were often specific ports on the motherboard, and loaded the OS, etc. Things after that were more dynamic.