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From: gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
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Subject: Re: A3000
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Date: 4 May 90 14:43:13 GMT
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In article <11291@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>If you're after a network computer, it might make some sense to sell a 
>system with no disk, if it can easily boot from a network.  I don't see
>any sense in an A3000 without hard disk or network; sure, you can work

Yeah, but with the advent of virtual memory, you would have to be nuts to sell
a diskless system.  Paging over ethernet really slows down a system.  We have
a couple of DecStation labs here that have been set up.  Some of the paging
is done via ethernet and when they start paging, you really know it.  I agree
that it makes the most sense to sell it with a drive.  It really isn't that
much more expensive and you get a great deal more flexibility.

>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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			See ya, Ralph

 
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