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- From: stu5s11@bcrka280.bnr.ca (David Simmons 1342678)
- Subject: Re: Sys 7 Startup disk fiasco
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.201706.14511@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: stu5s11@bnr.ca (David Simmons 1342678)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Jul21.133842.17627@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:17:06 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- If your in a lab with several computers, it often a good
- idea to get a small harddrive (40Megs) that you can just carry
- from computer to computer. You can put a full system on it
- and just us the Startup CDEV to switch disks. It's also
- handy for all kinds of systems maintanence.
-
- I don't know how much Apple can do to make room on the
- floppy for applications. There's only so much you can
- take out before it does't work. They could strip
- out some things like Truetype and others, but
- then people would complain that this or the other
- app wouldn't work.
-
- There may be some help on the way in one of two ways.
- Apple's working on a modular system, that is currently
- being hyped amount Information Systems people. With this you
- may be able to strip out unneeded modules. The second is
- Apple is starting to look at Very High Densinty Floppies.
-
- There's actually a third semi-solution. If you type
- Shift-Command-X-O on booting, it boots from a ROM disk.
- You can then put your application on a floppy and use
- it only for the floppy.
-
- What I'd like to see is a special disk that you insert
- and sllows you to boot of a network. Something like
- UNIX workstations do, where there are diskless nodes
- that contain no hard disk storage, and everything
- is read of a network server.
-
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- John (full of stupid ideas) Andrusiak
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