... It is not always possible to boot a computer from the hard disk. ... For typical PC's, this means booting from the floppy drive. Most Linux distributions allow one to create an emergency boot floppy during installation. ... You must, of course, remember to keep your emergency boot and root floppies up to date. ... However, if you have enough memory, you can configure your boot floppy to load the root disk to a ramdisk (the boot floppy's kernel needs to be specially configured for this). ...

... Use of the user-defined data type . ... The data type "bit" . ... User extensions Below follows a short summary of the new standard. ... The new command is SELECT CASE (expression) CASE block-switch block CASE block-switch block CASE DEFAULT default block END SELECT Typical construct: SELECT CASE(3*I-J) ! ... Another example: INTEGER FUNCTION SIGNUM(N) SELECT CASE (N) CASE (:-1) SIGNUM = -1 CASE (0) SIGNUM = 0 CASE (1:) SIGNUM = 1 END SELECT END Three new constructs are included. ...