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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted on PC Unix system purchase
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.215902.28316@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:59:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.014555.19993@portal.hq.videocart.com>, kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
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- | The package ships with two (or three if you have unlimited users) disks and the
- | two tapes. You boot the disks; the system prompts you to insert the tape and
- | off you go. Slick installation, very fast, and much nicer than doing the
- | diskette shuffle.
-
- Sure wish they'd start shipping on floppy. I can put a card in a
- laptop (usually) to install from network, but I can't in a notebook, and
- Dell without X is a nice notebook system, fast and lean. So I use Xenix.
-
- Fact: older versions of Dell took 7-8 MB of RAM to install, but would
- run in 4MB if you didn't use X. I suspect that that's true of the new
- release, too. Why do I mention this? Battery life is related to memory
- size and disk usage, and if I don't use a lot of vmem to create
- swapping, I bet I can run longer in 4MB than 8.
-
- Remember, Dell says they want 8MB, only a fool would try something the
- manual says won't work, right?
-
- Maybe they should start shipping V.4 installed on their notebooks, and
- let them figure out how to get it in if you can't load from floppy. Or
- they could provide a driver for those parallel port SCSI adaptors and
- let me run to a tape that way. If a notbook is large enough for a slot,
- even a half slot, they wasted space, I want it smaller!
- --
- 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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