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From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System software on CD-ROM
Summary: Rampant silliness
Message-ID: <572@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 90 00:28:10 GMT
References: <18042@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <126900135@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton)
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In article <126900135@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re:  Apple Software Distribution Methods
>
>It has always seemed silly to sell a computer with a floppy drive
>whose capacity is less than main memory.  At least the original IBM
>PC got this part of the system design right.

Does this seem silly to anybody else beside me?

If I get a system with 8MB of memory, then is it silly to have a floppy
drive which cannot read an 8MB disk?  I didn't think so.  ;-)

David
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