Re: boot from CD-ROM?

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From: Christopher Songer
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:44

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In article <1992Aug21.215007.16708@tamsun.tamu.edu> wolter@cs.tamu.edu (Jan Wolter) writes:
>Thus my question is, if I cough up the money for a CD-ROM, how much disk
>space will I be able to free up on my hard-disk by leaving rarely used stuff
>off?

This might not be a good idea. I'm not sure what the MTBF for CD-ROM drives, 
but I seem to recall it is quite a bit lower than current harddrives.

Anyway,
-Chris

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