Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!ncar!noao!mcdsun!nud!anasaz!chad
From: chad@anasaz.UUCP (Chad R. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Status of V1.3
Summary: vote to keep floppys
Message-ID: <1063@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 00:04:34 GMT
References: <2677@louie.udel.EDU> <753@ast.cs.vu.nl> <107@swanhills.UUCP>
Reply-To: chad@anasaz.UUCP (Chad R. Larson)
Organization: DCF Inc, Phoenix AZ
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In article <753@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> P.S. Since I have to put some filler here to keep Pnews happy, I will mention
> that so far the total number of people expressing interest in having 1.3 run
> on a hard diskless system is 0.  If there are any floppy fans out there, speak
> now or forever hold your peace.

Part of my interest in Minix is the ability to run a multi-tasking
system on a lap-top.  You get 2 720k floppies (usually) which can
build a nice Minix, but hard disk portables are expensive,
(somewhat)fragile and power hawgs.  Please leave it possible to build a
floppy only system.
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