Amiga 3000 UX & 2410 Graphics Adapter
J Eric Townsend
jet at karazm.math.uh.edu
Sun Jun 30 04:55:30 AEST 1991
In article <2621 at urbana.mcd.mot.com> dfields at urbana.mcd.mot.com writes:
>>The idea of making everybody buy a tape drive to get UNIX is IMHO crazy.
>
>The idea of having a unix system with out a reasonable method to do
>backups is crazy. Or you plan to by a read/write optical drive?
Did I miss something? Has UNIX been unbundled?
As to the tape drive, it's a small expense. SunOS 4.1.1 comes on
*two* 150 Mb carts. The SunOS CD claims that the entire SunOS
distribution takes up:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sr3 284914 284916 0 100% /cd_rom/sunos
Yep, those two tapes are almost full.
If SunOS 4.1.1 came on Amiga floppies, it would take:
284916/880 = ~323 floppies.
Two 3M tapes cost me $50. 323 Sony floppies cost me ~$300.
Ick. Now compare that to a $600-700 peripheral. I dunno what
CBM charges, but you shouldn't have to use their tape drive. (Unless
UNIX is bundled with the tape drive!)
--
J. Eric Townsend - jet at uh.edu - bitnet: jet at UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126
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