Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Weird Guru... Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 88 00:49:27 GMT References: <44000001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu>, <9287@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: <9287@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Doug Merrit poses the following question: > 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?) Perhaps because some of use use floppy-only systems, and we can't fit all of the software we normally use on one Workbench disk. My Workbench disk is about 99% full, containing programs I use all the time like Facc, VT100, and MG. I also have an Aztec C disk which contains the compiler plus Make and MG for an editor. There is no way I can cram all of that on one disk. So when I do C hacking I boot from my C disk, and for everyday tasks I use my Workbench disk. It's not entirely convenient but then again, I don't have much of a choice. --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "words like conviction can turn into a sentence"