On (19 Dec 96) Kurt Wismer wrote to Paul Walker...
 -=> Mocking Paul to John <=-
 KW>   (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 PW> When you /boot/, then the /bootsector/ is /executed/. When
 PW> you do a directory, or copy/delete/etc. then the bootsector 
 PW> isn't executed, in fact probably isn't even looked at.
 KW> not too sure about that one... the computer has to read the media
 KW> descriptor byte, which i would imagine would be somewhere in the
 KW> bootsector...
No its in the fat area, not the bootsector.
Gordon
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