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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: CD ROMs, graphics accellerators, memory management & AUX
Message-ID: <26782411.3086@intercon.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 23:56:00 GMT
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In article <738@panix.UUCP>, alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>[about running A/UX with the CD-ROM as a live filesystem to conserve disk
>space]
> Don't forget, this sucker is s-l-o-w.

That's an understatement.  It's not quite as bad as running UNIX off of a
boot tape :-), but it'll probably be worth it only if you're broke or don't
use the files on the CD-ROM very often.

--
Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
--
"Y'know, you can't have, like, a light, without a dark to stick it in...
 You know what I'm sayin'?"     --Arlo Guthrie