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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3 games on CD-ROM for Amiga
Message-ID: <1774@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 90 13:04:21 GMT
References: <1990May3.174527.18593@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:

>(The blunt instrument for those of you who are 500+ articles behind:
>    Any machine with a CD-ROM drive on it could be running some flavor
>    of UNIX as easily as any game.  What a waste--getting a CR-ROM to
>    store 200Meg of sampled engine noise when you could have REAL
>    computing power from the same box.  A 500 could do it.  Imagine,
>    "Commodore Breaks the $1000 Price Barrier for UNIX Machines--
>     UNIX in the Home Becomes Real At Last!"   Hmmmmmm, Nah!)

Er, just because you have the storage space to hold Unix, doesn't mean
you can run it. Two problems with unix on CD-ROM:

1> You need an MMU to run unix. 500's and 2000's don't have them. You need
a 2500 and up.

2> You can't write to a CD-ROM. Unix does a lot of housekeeping and writes
lots of logs and temp files all the time. You need a lot of diskspace for
this. Writable diskspace.

--
I wanna WARM optical drive! (Write and Read Many)
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