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- From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 09:31:53 -0600
- Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
- Message-ID: <4dlp59$n1k@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- References: <4bq8mg$gp2@guava.epix.net> <1903.6588T778T2112@xmission.com> <4dggrf$8c6@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <797.6589T899T2591@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <797.6589T899T2591@crash.cts.com>,
- Phil Wright <pwright@crash.cts.com> wrote:
- >That's not the Zip's fault. That's crappy PC SCSI controller design.
-
- Regardless, it's a valid reason to want another SCSI address.
-
- >Not
- >that you would ever want to boot up a PC with a Zip. 100MB isn't really
- >enough to hold Windows and any kind of an useful app.
-
- Why on earth would I want to run Windows?
-
- I ran UNIX System V for several years, with multiple users, including mail
- and news feeds, on a single 70MB hard drive.
-
- But just to prove you wrong, I just went and installed Windows 3.1 in the
- boot partition (32MB) of a PC running DOS 3.3. It had enough space left
- for the swapfile and everything. I think I'll leave it there... my 7 year
- old daughter decided she likes running Minesweeper, though I can't imagine
- what else it's good for. On a 16 MHz 386 with 4M it's decidedly more
- sluggish than my son's Amiga 1200 with a 12 MHz 680X0 and 2M.
- --
- If the best part of waking up is Folgers in the cup, you might as well
- stay in bed.
-
- <URL: http://bonkers.neosoft.com/~peter/ >
-