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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: A question on the popularity of SCO Unix
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Date: 13 Dec 90 03:46:39 GMT
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In article <1612@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:

| -     $300-500 depending on vendor. Oh, and hidden costs, like Dell only
| -     shipping on tape currently.
| 
| Urgh.  I've installed several different flavors of UNIX from floppies.  I
| would not wish that sort of menial labor on my worst enemy.  Anyone who
| configures a UNIX box without a tape drive, and any UNIX vendor who doesn't
| ship their kit on tape, should have their head examined.  

  But that's your option. After all, the install only takes about 4
hours from floppy, and you are unlikely to do it often, and on a small
system you can backup only the user files, which may be small enough to
put on floppy.

| ship their kit on tape, should have their head examined.  With decent tape
| drives with controllers coming in well under $500...  it sure is worth $500
| to me to not have to shuffle floppies for four hours.

  I have a tape on every system I own, but I would not give up having a
home UNIX system because I couldn't afford to buy a tape drive.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me