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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!telly!evan
- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted on PC Unix system purchase
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:11:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A9AE853.66DE@telly.on.ca>
- References: <1992Aug15.014555.19993@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1992Aug17.215902.28316@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug22.161009.16555@unixland.natick.ma.us>
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- In article <1992Aug22.161009.16555@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
- >davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
-
- >> 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
-
- >Personnally, I wouldn't buy a system like that unless there was also a way
- >for ME to re-load the OS. Otherwise, what will you do if the disk crashes?
- >Send the machine back to them to re-load your OS?
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- That's why it's good to have the option from a vendor of getting the OS
- on floppies. Sure, it's ugly, but it will load on everything.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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