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[–] mindbleach 3 points 4 months ago

I have a few CD-ROMs labeled "High Sierra" because the ISO 9660 format was always a loose approximation of what people were already doing. It got kludged even harder as CD-R and CD-RW took off. Turning that into something a USB drive can boot was a magic trick that lasted far longer than it probably should've.