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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:24:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> But, to be fair, there is a way to do this with Linux.  They have a system
> which you can put all the system files on a DOS filesystem, then you
> boot DOS and then you can run Linux from there.  If you decide you don't

Yes, it's called UMSDOS and it's so painfully slow that I'm sure
many who try it come away with the mistaken impression that Linux
is slower than a dog (it has a few perf problems, yes, but it's not
THAT bad :-).

I'm not sure that this is a good thing.

						Jordan