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- From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.091103.6720@becker.GTS.ORG>
- Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
- References: <id.CS3W.9X8@ferranti.com> <Bzss9r.Ds8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <id.P4CW.IU@ferranti.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:11:03 GMT
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- In article <id.P4CW.IU@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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- |You got a usable boot floppy with a comercial UNIX? I haven't seen one
- |in a shipped commercial system since Microsoft Xenix. You generally have to
- |duplicate the install floppy, mount it, and defang it before you can boot
- |UNIX off a floppy. NOT for the naive user.
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- Amiga Unix SysVr4 version 2.1 has bootable
- floppy plus fsck support etc.
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