CD ROMs, graphics accellerators, memory management & AUX

Amanda Walker amanda at mermaid.intercon.com
Fri Jun 15 09:56:00 AEST 1990


In article <738 at panix.UUCP>, alexis at panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>[about running A/UX with the CD-ROM as a live filesystem to conserve disk
>space]
> Don't forget, this sucker is s-l-o-w.

That's an understatement.  It's not quite as bad as running UNIX off of a
boot tape :-), but it'll probably be worth it only if you're broke or don't
use the files on the CD-ROM very often.

--
Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
--
"Y'know, you can't have, like, a light, without a dark to stick it in...
 You know what I'm sayin'?"     --Arlo Guthrie



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