Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!woodsb
From: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga (was Re: Picture swap)
Summary: Undue Purversity would have a snit...
Message-ID: <4560@killer.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 88 08:04:20 GMT
References: <9701@g.ms.uky.edu> <1462@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
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In article <1462@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM> dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell) writes:
 >
 >     As for the availability of binaries if they *aren't* posted...  Well, I
 >have no trouble with an archive server, if Pat and Co. at Purdue want to do
 >it that way (or Peter da Silva and his wolf do).  Ftp access is a moot point
 >for me, since I don't have it.  Given the high volume of the binaries group,
 >though, would this be a good idea from the server site's point of view? 
 >After all, the way things are now, they just have to post it once, and that's
 >that.  (Ideally, barring newsfeed hiccups.)  But if everybody who normally
 >collects the binaries calls in, won't they be overloaded?  I don't have
 >enough data to make even a halfway decent guess.  (Pat?  Somebody?)  

     Overloaded?  Wow.  Now, that's an understatement of staggering
proportions.  Worthy of a Briton...

     Well, anyway, the volume generated by an archive server for UUCP
is would be high enough that I feel pretty secure in saying that Purdue
would not be at all happy about supporting it (another understatement;
actually, they'd have kittens at the very idea).

 >p.s.
 >     Sean:  512K is enough.  Barely, I'll admit, but it will work.  Even with
 >just two drives.  (The Manx manual says you can do it with one.  I suppose so,
 >but it sounds painful.)  If you can afford it, I'd suggest buying a third
 >floppy drive.  Even if you have one meg of ram, a third drive would make
 >things much nicer.  (I have a 2000 w/one meg, and I'd *love* to have three
 >drives!  Better yet, a hard disk!)  Of course, if you're in the "starving
 >student" class, that doesn't help much, I suppose. :-(  Sorry if that's the
 >case.  --dds

     Third drive?!  *Just* two drives?!  I'm sorry, but I'd kill for a
second drive.  I have a 1000 (yup, one of the originals) and all I have
is the internal drive for it.  I do have an extra 1 Mbyte on the side,
but I could only afford that since I got it before the price rise on
memory.  I'm not quite starving, but I can't really afford big purchases
either.


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     Brent Woods, Co-Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga

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