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- From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.025014.9758@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:18:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.203132.11397@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes...
- >In article <1992Aug11.124211.5861@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- >
- >| >What would linux be without 2 AM kernel patches? :) Or 3 different getty
- >| >programs, shoelace, lilo, and 4 different versions of the kernel to play
- >| >with? :)
- >|
- >| Probably dead. I have no intention that this changes, but I don't think
- >| anybody is claiming that this is the ideal environment in which real
- >| work should be made (no, I don't mean that you should use current Linux
- >| for real work when it is still officially in beta).
- >
- > Linux won't be a "real" o/s until the production kernel (what Linus
- >releases) includes support for (at least) SCSI and QIC-02 tapes. What
- >good is a neat o/s which you can't back up?
- >
- > And while I may have have networking at home, most people don't have
- >2nd machines, or ethernet, or anything like that, and are backing up to
- >floppy, a solution which stops being practical about 20MB, and stops
- >being possible about 60MB.
- >--
- >bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- > I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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- I have an Archive (I think that is it) 120 MB tape backup on my machine. It
- uses 3M DC2120 tapes.
-
- What format are these? QIC-02?
-
- Regards
- Richard Sharpe
-