bind 4.8 under OSx 4.4c
Sir Hoyt
hoyt at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
Fri Jul 21 01:13:59 AEST 1989
In article <209 at trux.UUCP> car at trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>Does the boot process require that floppy to be present?
Yup.
>If so it's a scary thought. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
>I'd be very uncomfortable knowing that my mightly mega-$$$$$ Unix box could
>be rendered useless by a missing or blown 50 cent floppy.
Pyramid is not the first company to use this. There is
another very BIG company that use 8" floppies to this day to
boot thier machines from. Do you know who?? Can you
say 'IBM' ( god that hurts...). The reason I am told that
they use them is becuase of reliabilty!
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