Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!assari.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@lehtori.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: drop the floppy port? (was: 16Mhz Mac Classic?) Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 14:44:53 GMT References: <31031@<1990Dec10>> <77800073@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <11561@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Dec18.074234.19590@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <9863@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@assari.tut.fi (USENET News System) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU's message of 18 Dec 90 13:57:36 GMT You would need at least one disk drive to make the workstation usable by a client. Most people I know of keep their work on floppies, and most servers I know of are read-only, i.e. they don't have workspaces for people's files on them. Where did this idea of read only servers come from. You can set the read/write permissions however you like. All servers I have come across enable you to make passwords for different users and that password gives you access to your own files plus the public files on the server, depending on the particular setup. Workstations with floppy drives can be restricted to a minimum and so spreading of viruses is also made much more difficult. Now it's a completely different story why there has not yet been any discless Macs (maybe the Local Talk is simply too slow to boot), which btw would cut down costs much more than just making cheap machines, and also would make information management much more easier. That is if you don't need to take your work home. ____________________________________________________________________________ Donald Burr, Univ of California, Berkeley | "I have a seperate mail-address INTERNET: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.edu | for flames and other such nega- or: 72540.3071@compuserve.COM | tive msgs; it's called /dev/null." -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe