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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ROM disk [ was Re: RAM disk ]
Message-ID: <515@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 00:51:23 GMT
References: <1010@daisy.UUCP> <802@spdcc.COM> <1962@ubc-cs.UUCP> <6052@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <6052@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wen-king@cit-vlsi.Caltech.Edu  \
      (Wen-King Su) writes:
< I have thought about getting a portable 386 box to run UNIX on, but I
< didn't want to have to ballance a spinning hard disk on my laps.
< Reading about RAM-DISK drivers gave me an idea about building a
< transportable, shake-able, kick-able, virtually indestructible :-) UNIX
< box, whose root partition resides on a ROM-DISK.

A number of DOS laptops (some Toshibas, at least) put the OS in
ROM, and HP came out with a Unix-in-ROM portable a couple of years
ago.  I have no idea how it went...

-- 
Steve Friedl   V-Systems, Inc.   "Yes, I'm jeff@unh's brother"
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