[WinMac] Re: iMac

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:11:22 -0500

        Dear Tim:

        NT cannot be booted from removable media. Period. Not on AlphaNT, and not
on NT/x86.

        Can't speak for windoze 95/98, though... I avoid them like the plague! :)

At 06:25 AM 2/5/99 -0500, Tim Scoff replied to my original post:
>>>>> Where the iMac sucks is for home use, i.e the
>>>>>features that make it so good for corporate desktops (no floppy, built-in
>>>>>10/100 ethernet) make it lousy for home users.

        [cut]
>
> When are Zip drives going to be bootable on PCs? I'ld love
>it if I could install a basic copy of NT or 95 on a Zip disk at work
>to use for emergency troubleshooting instead of lugging a floppy
>around and using DOS.
>Tim Scoff, MCSE
>casper@nb.net
><http://www.nb.net/~casper/>
>
>Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. The world's only fully buzzword compliant
>Operating System.

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