Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!info-mac
From: info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac)
Newsgroups: ont.micro.mac
Subject: disks, etc.
Message-ID: <4825@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 10:45:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4825
Posted: Sat Jul  7 10:45:01 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jul-84 12:28:17 EDT
Sender: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 24

Date: 7 July 1984 05:08-EDT
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <uw-beaver!POURNE@MIT-MC>
Subject:  disks, etc.
To: POURNE@MIT-MC
Cc: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM, vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX
In-Reply-To: Msg of 3 Jul 1984 03:19-EDT from Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE>

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?