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From: aglew@XENURUS.GOULD.COM (Andy-Krazy-Glew)
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Date: 7 Mar 89 18:59:15 GMT
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>The advantage that the Amiga version of X11 has over X terminals is running 
>clients locally and local mass storage. 
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bless you!
>-- 
>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.

I am glad that I am not alone in thinking that local, removeable,
mass storage is important. I use a diskless SUN, and I get sick of
walking across the building to stick a cassette tape in a drive.
I want local storage, high density floppies or cartridge tape or
whatever, at my desk (so I can do things like walk through my offline
files without moving the tapes from the cabinet they're stored in).

This is a longstanding desire: back when I was managing an IBM RJE
site I bought an early IBM PC and a modem for the site so that 
our users could download stuff to their floppies, instead of having 
to walk across campus to the machine room.

My dream desktop machine: a large screen, X, local removeable mass storage
(high density floppy, tape, or removeable electrooptical), enough memory
to be usefully diskless, and a high speed connection to the bigger machines
I work on all the time.  Myself, I have little need for local high speed
hard disks, and the removeable mass storage can be slow, and little need
to run the applications locally - if the connection and the connected machine
are fast enough.