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- From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: Hey C=, Why not Unix on CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.160027.11102@kas.helios.mn.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:00:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.090606.3380@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN
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- In article <1992Aug31.090606.3380@dxcern.cern.ch> sibilia@dxcern.cern.ch (Riccardo Sibilia) writes:
- =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.
- =
- It would be a great idea but there is nobody to PUT it on
- CD-ROM and distribute it. Only the tape cut is available.
-
- Sigh,
-
- -Rob
-