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SCO Xenix was every bit as bad, and yes, I did the Slackware "download floppy images, make a stack of floppies, spend hours installing" dance as well. I remember being very relieved by the rise of CD-ROM and CD-R.



Buffer overflows when burning CDs was a big pain too.

I am not sure if those early CD writers even had buffers - but they were so expensive back then, that I didnt have one.

There was "that one guy" who had it and was supplying pirated stuff for whole neighborhood.


ISTR a couple of boot floppies was enough to get the attached Wangtek drive spinning so you could bootstrap a DC600 tape and load from there.

I don't recall if this was an official implementation or something we cooked up.

Oh yes, and there was the floppy way too.


It was a great feeling when we were able to bootstrap a CDROM drive.




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