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- From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 18:26:26 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <id.LBYV.X76@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.LBYV.X76@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >
- >Gotta be able to do it without a tape. Most people don't have them.
- >
- >I'm talking a *real* UNIX Lite here, not this Univel junk. Something that
- >lets you come up and run applications in 6 or 8 floppies, and be able to
- >do system checkout on a floppy boot sans hard disk.
-
- Software distribution is a problem for everybody. MS-Windows fits in
- 6-8 floppies, but does OS/2? will NT? I doubt it. MS will probably go
- with CD-ROM for NT.
-
-
- Univel's current software distribution options are not workable for
- most people. Either CD-ROM or QIC 24 tape. QIC 24 tapes are sort of
- alien to the PC world. CD-ROM is probably getting popular, but I don't
- think SVR4.2 supports any of the cheapo CD drives PC users are getting
- from Radio Shack. It is very hard to justify a $700 SCSI CD-ROM just
- load your OS. Colorado supposedly has SVR4.2 drivers for their Jumbo
- Tape drives, but you can't install the OS from their tapes.
-
- >
- >This implies that most of the shell scripts used for booting and basic
- >administration, all the way up to running X, can't require anything
- >you can't fit on a 1.2K floppy. It's OK to have the kernel on a separate
- >disk, but only as a last resort.
-
- That would be great indeed, but even DOS 5.0 is too big for that. I
- would settle for an inexpensive way to load the OS. What about the new
- 20M optical/mag floppies? Is anyone supporting them yet?
-
-