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Subject: disks, etc.
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Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 05:19:38 EDT
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From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@MIT-MC>
As has been pointed out by many, you CAN boot with the external
drive, with the main drive empty; that seems to work about as if
you had a 1-drive system.
The font transfer problem remains real, though; and teh System
Disk has to be somewhere for it to do much.
	I do not understand the business about inserting the
original system disk when copying disks, but it happens
consistently to me: only when copying all files, not when
copying any single file.
	With a second drive the Mac becomes useful, but it
remains painfully slow in getting much done, and there seems to
be -- I have heard of no -- way to do BATCH work so you can set
it up to do something and just go away while it does it.  Anyone
know of a SUBMIT like facility for the Mac?