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From: dlm@piggy.UUCP (Daryl Monge)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: UNIX on Atari ST or Commodore Amiga?
Message-ID: <356@piggy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 22:54:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 22:54:58 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Holmdel, NJ
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The CD-ROM seeks fairly slow.  Add in the fact that the UNIX file system
is not notably fast and CD-ROM have limited use as OS disks.  However,
a staging of programs to a fast disk as they were used (sort of like
a UNIX Sticky bit) might be feasible.  It would be a fun hack.


Daryl Monge
AT&T Bell Labs Holmdel, NJ

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