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Article #128Re: Riscos On Disc ??????? A pipedream ????????
From: Mr. Zippie
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <na.3a79f74892.a40040tdean@argonet.co.uk>, Mr. Zippie
<tdean@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I th ink that when riscos and Arther whas orrigionaly arround the
> availibility of hard discs was not verry easy to get hold of.
> Imagin what it would be like to have to insert a disc every time that you
> wanted to startup the computer.... (See footnote below)
>
> So I think that riscos should be alowed to be suplied on disc with a set
> of
> generic drivers to axcess all the hardware that is used on those pc
> computers.
> Is this possible.
> Think about it just by the os and s/whare and the hardware would cost so
> little.
>
> Is this the way forward then ?? Coes i think so
>
>
> Tim DEan
>
> Footnote*****************************
>
> WIN 98 users have to do this as they have worked out that it is quicker to
> keep the cd in the drive all the time ;-)
>
>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104d22,fde165d5d8704c3f X-Google-Attributes: gid104d22,public X-Google-Thread: f73c4,fde165d5d8704c3f X-Google-Attributes: gidf73c4,public X-Google-Thread: 106045,fde165d5d8704c3f X-Google-Attributes: gid106045,public From: Mr. Zippie <tdean@argonet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Riscos On Disc ??????? A pipedream ???????? Date: 1998/10/22 Message-ID: <na.d53e1f4899.a40040tdean@argonet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 404071459 Distribution: world References: <4887cde467xigen@argonet.co.uk> <na.1a34194889.a40040johnolan@argonet.co.uk> <ant2122500b0BEuJ@beeldwerk.demon.nl> <488c30ba8ereghems@argonet.co.uk> <na.d7dc52488e.a50320campbell@argonet.co.uk> <na.3a79f74892.a40040tdean@argonet.co.uk> Organization: ArgoNet, but does not reflect its views Reply-To: Mr. Zippie <tdean@argonet.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.misc,argonet.acorn.misc