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) Distribution: na Organization: Artificial Realities, Inc. Lines: 44 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. -- Brent Woods, Co-Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga USENET: woodsb@killer.UUCP or ihnp4!att!killer!woodsb USNAIL: 320 Brown St., #406 / W. Lafayette, IN 47906 MABELL: +1 (317) 743-8421