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Some vendors ([[AST Research|AST]] and [[NEC]]<ref name="Novell_1993_FYI.M.1101"/>) supported [[AST MBR<!-- NEC MBR -->|eight]], instead of the standard [[Partition table (master boot record)|four]], primary partition entries in their custom extended ''[[Master Boot Record]]'' (''MBR''), and they adapted MS-DOS to use more than a single primary partition.