Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!n62 From: n62@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c Message-ID: <283@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 6 Oct 89 14:08:56 GMT References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3540@ast.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: Schutte@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Klamer Schutte) Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 21 In article <3540@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >In article broman@nosc.mil writes: >>It's too bad that floppy-only systems seem to be excluded from any of this >>action, because the big compressed archive probably won't fit on a floppy. > >boot diskettes etc to actually come up on floppies, I think that the number >of floppy-only users is rapidly decreasing, as hard disks keep coming down >in price. Are they? An atari ST, 1meg, monochrome monitor cost Hfl 1499,- A hard disk, 30 meg (normal size) cost Hfl 1299,- I see this as almost doubling the price -- and i don't have the money. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) Klamer. -- _____________________Yes, mail address changed again :-(________________________ Klamer Schutte mcvax!nikhefh!{n62,Schutte} {Schutte,n62}@nikhef.nl