[geeks] OSX 10.4.2, FireFox 1.0.5 out

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:

> Netbooted machines shouldn't need an fsck.  Now if the box the diskless
> workstations were booting off of crashed, then yeah, everyone suffers.

True.
 
> As far as a Sun taking a long time to boot, try booting some of the
> early Ultra Enterprise class boxes with diag-switch? set to true and
> diag-level set to max. =)

> Might be 5 minutes before you even see something on the console.

I've heard reports that the fastest POWER machines manage to boot more
slowly. 
 
> But the UNIX Haters' Handbook was refering to UNIX Workstations, so they
> were probably refering to Sun3 or early Sparcs, which compared to the
> LISP machines they usually replaced, they did boot pretty quickly.

Now to just get one of those LISP machines in running condition at a
price I can afford.

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