In message <20000903174434.A517@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>OpenBSD (which is younger than NetBSD)  started with 16 partition, so they
>didn't have to deal with compatibilities issues. Also note that some of the
>newer NetBSD ports have 16 partitions too.

Yes, such as NetBSD/amiga, which I believe was the second port.

(I remember running into fsck refusing to let me fsck sdXi, even though
the partition worked otherwise.)

-s