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From: rburns@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WISH: AU/X on CD-ROM
Message-ID: <20999@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 18 Feb 88 17:42:54 GMT
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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I was noticing that Apple is making AU/X pretty freely available through
VAR's.  I've been thinking that one nice way to package this product
might be on CD-ROM.  My understanding is that most of the UNIX utilities
won't be be needed most of the time.  You could then copy over the most
needed stuff to your 40meg hard disk, and leave make efficient use of
your hardware.  I plan on buying a CD-ROM drive for my Mac II as soon as one 
comes out that can handle both CD-ROM and some kind of WORM format at a
price under $1800.  This would mean that folk like me could upgrade to 
A/UX at fairly little marginal cost.