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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Basic system
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Date: 27 May 89 12:59:40 GMT
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In article <8343@pyr.gatech.EDU> isbell@pyr.gatech.EDU ( Charles L. Isbell) writes:
>	how much of a difference does [a hard drive] really make?  And
>in what ways?  Anyone?

I ran my machine off its optical for a few days after a little software
snafu (which I do not care to discuss).  What I found was the machine was
reasonable if you were not using the console (i.e., not running all those
huge Interface-heavy processes).  On the console, things were pretty slow,
but bearable for mundane things, if you are a patient kind of person.
I wouldn't want to do software development with one, but for other things
it was ok.

Steve
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