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- From: songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.204405.106323@lexmark.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:44:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.162617.13381@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug21.175254.3220@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Aug21.215007.16708@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug21.215007.16708@tamsun.tamu.edu> wolter@cs.tamu.edu (Jan Wolter) writes:
- >Thus my question is, if I cough up the money for a CD-ROM, how much disk
- >space will I be able to free up on my hard-disk by leaving rarely used stuff
- >off?
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- This might not be a good idea. I'm not sure what the MTBF for CD-ROM drives,
- but I seem to recall it is quite a bit lower than current harddrives.
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- Anyway,
- -Chris
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