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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!visi.com!mr.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!hrc5!kobay ash From: kobayash@hrc5.harvard.edu (Ken Kobayashi) 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 Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 23 Jan 97 22:22:41 GMT Organization: Harvard University University Information Systems Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32e7e4b1.0@cfanews.harvard.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5brtq9$c6d@news2.isdnet.net> <87iv4sns63.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <m2915nyrxf.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5c33j2$2vh@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cfanews.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153892 comp.os.linux.networking:65960 comp.os.linux.setup:93617 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5702 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1992 Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) 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). I think he meant support for a _parallel port_ Zip drive. - Ken