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From: lippin@maypo.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
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Date: 16 May 88 03:32:37 GMT
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I suspect that the floppy drivers could be tweaked so that they would
only eject the disk when a special piece of software asked them to.
This would allow the effect of diskless booting, at the expense of a
floppy drive (cheaper than an 80-meg hard drive, anyway). This will
bring up the regular Mac OS, but not having used A/UX, I don't know
if one could cram enough onto a floppy to bring it up remotely.

				--Tom Lippincott
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