From: Warner Losh (imp@boulder.parcplace.com)
Date: 07/13/93 

From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 16:53:25 GMT

In article <CA3AqB.8H7@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
>In article <MIKE.93Jul4184257@MooCow.moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de>, mike@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de (Mike Dowling) writes:
>>Linux actually boots from a diskette, and that says a lot!
>So did VMS, when floppies were used as boot devices.

And those were 400K floppies (Ah, the RX-50's). It only took three to
boot standalone backup, but all there weren't full.

Warner 

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Warner Losh             imp@boulder.parcplace.COM       ParcPlace Boulder
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