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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password
Date: 11 May 1997 17:27:04 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Dave Roberts <dave.roberts@saaconsultants.com> wrote:

> > What the heck operating system is this for, anyway?  
> 
> It's AIX.  The lovely ability to boot from a tape.

This ability however is not specific to AIX.  All workstations i know
of could be booted from tape.  It's only a PC braindamage that the
SCSI BIOS doesn't support this (and it also had to go great lengths to
boot from a CD-ROM).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)