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- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: 32 bit backup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1479.4265@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:41:00 EST
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- In message <18JUL199223124107@venus.tamu.edu>,FREY, TONY C writes:
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- TC>Welcome to poverty. I bet most of us don't have tape backups. I have a 120
- TC>meg drive, of which I would gladly back-up onto floppies (been doing so under
- TC>FAT for 2 years), most users aren't going to have high end systems.
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- I'd tend to dispute this. People using OS/2 have by definition a 386
- with 4MB of ram and at least 30MB of data. The majority will have more.
- Clearly, a $250 tape drive option is not all that uncommon on such
- systems. Also, I expect that the OS/2 (and NT) systems will spur the
- growth of backup systems, once native OS/2 and NT support exists.
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