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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
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Date: 7 Jan 88 18:51:18 GMT
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CD ROM roots would be bad because CD ROM's are blindingly slow.

A write protected root is easy, we built such a system at BRL but
after we did it we couldn't find anything good to use it for.

4.2 BSD would run for a few hours with a read only swap partition
as well.

-Ron