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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5l4vh8$16j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33620df6.598988@news.sol.co.uk> <5k01sq$cbc$1@news.calweb.com> <5kj484$av6$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <336F071A.5798@saaconsultants.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40740 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. ;-)