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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 22 Jan 1997 16:22:13 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <5c33j2$2vh@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson wrote:
>In article <m2915nyrxf.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com>,
>Thomas Evans <tjevans@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I prefer linux because it has...Zip drive support...
>
>What on earth is `Zip drive support'? I pluged a Zip drive into my
>Sparcstation running NetBSD, and it worked just fine. You can even
>boot from it (except on a PC, where the loosing SCSI BIOSes can't
>boot from anything but the lowest number drive).
Zip drive support implies support for *all* Zip drives.
Try connecting a parallel or IDE Zip to your NetBSD Sparcstation....
>
>cjs
>--
>Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/
>Internet Portal Services, Inc.
>Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.
Regards
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