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From: schwager@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Weird Guru...
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Date: 28 Apr 88 17:17:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!schwager    Apr 28 12:17:00 1988


Not to get too defensive, but...
> /* Written  3:32 am  Apr 27, 1988 by doug@eris in uxg.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga.tech */
> 
> 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?)
> 

Me too!  But, I think you answer your own question:

> 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.
> 

I have three disks that I use to boot with (aside from games): my
generic Workbench for when something wacky happens (like the guru  I had
with my Manx disk), so I can get back to the basics and know everything
works and I'm not in the Twilight Zone, my Manx disk for C programming,
and another disk for doing text/desktop publishing/dialup work.  Since
I have text editors and stuff on the text disk, cc and as et. al. on the
Manx disk, I know I'm dealing with a known setup when I boot
from whatever disk I boot from.  Also, I can pop in the disks that I
know I'll need for whatever application and do as little swapping as
possible.  If I had one boot disk only, I'd have to put additional commands
and gizmos on another disk (I have just enough room on my Manx
disk for everything; I have Emacs on a seperate disk- no room for a text
editor).  Having assigns on other disks and commands scattered around
bugs me more than rebooting :-).  I don't boot that often, under normal
conditions.  
> 
> 	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
> /* End of text from uxg.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga.tech */

-Mike Schwager
-- {ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager   schwager%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa
	University of Illinois, Dept. of Computer Science