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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: SCSI devices
Message-ID: <2248@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 17 May 91 06:31:40 GMT
References: <1991May16.134338.5725@europa.asd.contel.com>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
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In article <1991May16.134338.5725@europa.asd.contel.com> doug@timelord.UUCP
(Doug Whitehead) writes:
>Just my 2 cents... I think the CD-ROM drive would be
>a great way to distribute Commodore Unix (Comix?).

Amiga Unix.  Sometimes Amix or just Unix but never anything resembling
`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.

2.0 has a package routine that breaks Unix up into bite size
pieces.  The core distributions is somewhere around 30 meg.

Aren't CD-ROMS somewhere around the price of a cartridge tape?
QIC-60 is also the ABI choice.

CD-ROMS are useful, though, and we will probably support them in a
future release.

Pax, Keith



-- 
Keith Gabryelski                                 Advanced Products Group
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