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SCO Xenix was every bit as bad, and yes, I did the Slackware "download floppy images, make a stack of floppies, spend hours installing" dance as well. I remembe
by flyinghamster 4y ago
SCO Xenix was every bit as bad, and yes, I did the Slackware "download floppy images, make a stack of floppies, spend hours installing" dance as well. I remember being very relieved by the rise of CD-ROM and CD-R.
- linker3000 4y agoISTR a couple of boot floppies was enough to get the attached Wangtek drive spinning so you could bootstrap a DC600 tape and load from there. I don't recall if this was an official implementation or something we cooked up. Oh yes, and there was the floppy way too.
- blantonl 4y agoIt was a great feeling when we were able to bootstrap a CDROM drive.
- rvba 4y agoBuffer overflows when burning CDs was a big pain too. I am not sure if those early CD writers even had buffers - but they were so expensive back then, that I didnt have one. There was "that one guy" who had it and was supplying pirated stuff for whole neighborhood.