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From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: interesting feature on AMIX..
Message-ID: <13706@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:48:50 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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I was looking through the docs about formatting floppies and stuff, and right
before it they were talking about mounting filesystems.  On the Amiga, this
means that we could mount a file system on the floppy, and this would definitely
be a selling point for universities and educational facilities because you would
be able to mount a filesystem for a user and that user can take his file system
home with him.  (hey, that would take care of quota problems!!)  Solve a lot of
problem in terms of disk usage on the system.  

This is most likely a very dense question, and I have not had a chance to take
a look at other Release 4 systems.  So here goes. Is there such a feature on the
Unix boxes for the 486's??  I'm just looking for a selling point, so I can 
convince others at the CS department to buy it.


Commodore guys:

Hey, are 1.2meg floppy drives standard on the AmigaUX?  For some reason I think
I only got the regular 800K drive.  On AmigaDOS I tried to format a floppy but
it only gave me 875K rather than 1.2K.  Just wondering....


	Yours,
	Sri
	aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu