On May 8, 22:28, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> > I presume the system, like the Performas et al., will come with a
> > bootable
> > CD which can be used to restore the system to "factory" condition.
>
> And there went everything that was put on the disk after it left
> the factory.
Not necessarily, if it's done "right". Sun sparcstations and SGI
workstations come with the O/S on bootable CD, and re-installing doesn't
imply deleting all the other stuff that was added since the first factory
install. The O/S and support software/datafiles can be added/replaced in
modular fashion.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat May 09 1998 - 04:14:04 BST