[18] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: What about Unix?
eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 22 02:50:28 1992
Hmm. So my assumption that I could "log in over the net" and build
things on it may have been a bit off? :-)
>> type "su -cf mkfs /dev/rz0a" AND you have to remember the root password.
Now, Ted, be fair... on the VS3100's, you just hit the little
white button and tell it to format; it's easier to format the hard
disk than the floppies -- which is why the consultants don't have
people use 3100's to format floppies. Don't even need the root
password.
And "blowing away the machine" is pretty much equally easy on
any system with a mass-market architecture, if you can boot from media
you bring with you. The only reason that it's "hard" to wipe the disk
on an Athena machine is that it's "hard" to do just about anything
else too, until you reach the education level where you know enough
about what's going on not to make that kind of "mistake".
(I'm giving os/2 the benefit of the doubt and assuming that it
does pre-emptive scheduling; I hope that's not going out on too much
of a limb. If correct, that covers most of what a "personal" machine
needs, whether or not it is on a network - as long as you don't allow
shared access of any kind, particularly coming in from the network.)
