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Article #44885Re: System software on CD-ROM
From: David Walton
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 00:28
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 00:28
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In article <126900135@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re: Apple Software Distribution Methods
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>It has always seemed silly to sell a computer with a floppy drive
>whose capacity is less than main memory. At least the original IBM
>PC got this part of the system design right.
Does this seem silly to anybody else beside me?
If I get a system with 8MB of memory, then is it silly to have a floppy
drive which cannot read an 8MB disk? I didn't think so. ;-)
David
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!gargoyle!dawyd From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System software on CD-ROM Summary: Rampant silliness Message-ID: <572@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> Date: 6 Jan 90 00:28:10 GMT References: <18042@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <126900135@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton) Distribution: usa Organization: U. Chicago Computing Organizations Lines: 19