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- From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK))
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Hey C=, Why not Unix on CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <Bu0qAp.K6n@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 20:01:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.090606.3380@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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- In article <1992Aug31.090606.3380@dxcern.cern.ch> sibilia@dxcern.cern.ch (Riccardo Sibilia) writes:
- >Hello folks!
- >
- >I was just wondering why Commodore is not releassing his Unix
- >port on CD-ROM, since the drive is easily available and cheap
- >and they do anyway write CD-ROMs for the CDTV. It would be
- >much easier to boot from a CD-ROM drive and then install the Unix
- >on the HD, or just have the root dir. and the swap there and the
- >whole system on the CD. Sure it would not be as fast as having the
- >system on the HD, but it would save some hundreds of megabytes.
- >
- >So who finds it would be a good idea, what whould be the inconvenients?
- >
- >(If I remeber Sun is actualy distributing much of his software
- >on CDROM and several other vendors do the same)
- >
- >Cheers,
- >
- >Rick
-
- That'd be a great idea if ya knew right now that Unix would never change or
- get any extra features. Unix has too many external features to be put on
- CD-ROM. Maybe when they come out with read/write CD-ROMS--- :)
-
- --Jason Balicki
- kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-