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From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:

> Since we are now blessed with fast ide cdroms , it would be really
> cool to have a CDROM version of picoBSD . The space is nice however,
> I am thinking that we can boot a lot faster from a CD ...

Not to mention the rather attractive security and reliability implications
of running off of a read-only medium.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."