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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Weird Guru...
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Date: 27 Apr 88 08:32:37 GMT
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In article <44000001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> schwager@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I was rearranging my master Aztec C disk, the one I boot for doing my C
>work.  [...]

I've been wondering for a LONG time now...why do people talk about
booting so much? Schwager makes it clear later that he has vd0:,
and that he's a CLI-er, which increases my puzzlement. I dislike
booting, so I do it as little as possible (hey, what's to LIKE about
booting?)

(BTW I ask because it seems that so many people have a zillion boot
disks that they reboot all the time; I'm not singling out Schwager).

Aside from playing games which *require* booting, I average about
two months between boots for normal use. Versus zillions of times when
debugging programs that scribble on memory, but that's another story.

And...when I *do* boot, I *ALWAYS* use the same boot disk. Which is
always write protected. So then I have to wonder how people catch
viruses.

Doing "execute some-setup-script" full of assigns always seems to
get me the environment I want instead of having to prepare endless
numbers of boot disks.

So tell me, what am I missing? What is the attraction of rebooting
all the time from different diskettes? Ok, with no restartable ram
disk, you may as well switch floppies for a new purpose (I guess).
But with one, why?

Have I lost perspective from growing up around Unix systems that
one desperately wants to stay up forever? I must be missing *something*.

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