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From: tsuia@spock (Alan Tsui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 20GBYTE Optical on Diskless 340 ?
Message-ID: <2600@quirkc>
Date: 20 Mar 90 15:12:33 GMT
References: <1990Mar13.234341.5720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <7370103@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Reply-To: tsuia@quirkc (Alan Tsui)
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In article <7370103@hpfcso.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>Can't be done, yet.  Diskless clients can't have locally mounted file
>systems.  They can have swap disk, raw device access, but no block-I/O.  For

	Is it really that hard to do?  Sun can do that 12 months ago!
	Would that be a marketing issue or technical issue?

>> Suffering the pains of watching the world migrate from HP-IB to SCSI...

	Well, if ther are 2GB HP-IB disk drive with faster read/write times
	and cheaper in price than SCSI, I don't see why hp customers would
	ever want to migrate from HP-IB to SCSI.

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