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Article #55429Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
From: Dan Hildebrand
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <wvyd8prpnm6.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU>, Frank Sweetser <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu> wrote: >danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) writes: > >> Well, there's the difference then. When you're running the QNX demodisk, >> you can disconnect your hard drive. The floppy drive too, once it's >> booted. :-) > >Well... yeah... while you're running the demo. But what about when I want >to write some code? Or run a command line shell? Or if I want man pages? >Or if I want to do some perl scripting? Or if I want a web and ftp server >with a nice web art collection and a mirror of sunsite? Or if I want to try >tweaking some of the kernel parameters myself? Even if I didn't have any of >the source code (which is something I demand now in my systems), that's an >awful lot of RAM.... Of course, when you want to do those things with QNX, you add the hard disk. The point was how much you could do before you even needed the hard disk. -- Dan Hildebrand (danh@qnx.com) QNX Software Systems, Ltd. http://www.qnx.com/~danh 175 Terence Matthews phone: +1 (613) 591-0931 Kanata, Ontario, Canada fax: +1 (613) 591-3579 K2M 1W8
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article? Date: 1997/06/12 Message-ID: <5nqdpr$2fh@qnx.com> X-Deja-AN: 248031608 References: <vznzpszrxav.fsf@intruder.iassf.easams.com.au> <wvyu3j3psdh.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU> <5npkma$o1p@qnx.com> <wvyd8prpnm6.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU> Organization: QNX Software Systems Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc