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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <id.Z1FW.FQ7@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <Bzss9r.Ds8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <id.P4CW.IU@ferranti.com> <C08JnK.H6z@gator.use.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:56:13 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <C08JnK.H6z@gator.use.com> larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- > peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > >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
-
- > Well you haven't seen Dell SVR4 2.2 (release 4.0). One can boot off the boot
- > disk, switch to the system disk when prompted, then exit to the shell and
- > mount your hard disk drives and modify (and execute) your applications
- > to you hearts content.
-
- Well, that's certainly a good first step, getting back to where Xenix was in
- '85. What is on the system disk? (mount, umount, cat, fsck, cpio, mkfs, dd,
- echo, ls, df, ...?) How well is this documented? Can you remove the system
- disk, insert another floppy, and mount it?
-
- (AmigaOS and MacOS have a nice solution to this: floppy file systems are
- identified primarily by volume label, rather than drive. If you access a
- floppy that is not physically installed, you are prompted to insert the
- appropriate volume. This is the sort of capability I would expect from a
- fully ruggedised UNIX).
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