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From: doug@timelord.uucp (Doug Whitehead  x4149)
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Subject: Re: SCSI devices
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Date: 16 May 91 13:43:38 GMT
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Just my 2 cents... I think the CD-ROM drive would be
a great way to distribute Commodore Unix (Comix?).
All those man pages and infrequently used pd utilities
can stay out on the CD-ROM drive, where they are slow
but accessable.  The critical stuff should be copied
onto your Hard disk for speed.  Such an arrangement
might make Unix reasonable on a 100Meg HD.  It would
also make unix updates cheap for Commodore.

to make this work you would probably need some sort
of convienent administration program; that would allow
you to specify which directories are not to be on HD.

One disadvantage of the CD-ROM: folks would not be 
able to backup their work (as you can with a tape drive).

doug
doug@ctc.contel.com