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From: verber@apatosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber)
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Subject: Re: Unix on CD?
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Date: 19 Apr 88 16:25:40 GMT
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In article <8786@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Hmm. Unix system binaries don't change that often. What if most of
>/bin, /usr, /lib were put on a CD? Attach one RO optical drive to your
>network of workstations. Heck, if the drives are cheap, even one per
>workstation.  A cache would speed access to the most often requested
>files. Maybe some scheme to allow bypassing distribution binaries with
>local versions.  OS upgrade would be just a matter of sending out CDs.
>
>Has this been done already? Or planned? Or too impractical yet/ever?
>
>	Ken

The optical disks are still too slow for this to be practical.  If
someone wanted to do this a good starting place would be the work done
a BRL which permitted the root file system to be on write-protected disks.


On the other hand dist. for sources would be ideal on CDs.  Something
I hope people start doing.   I believe that DEC is doing this for VMS
stuff now.

Cheers,
Mark A. Verber