the new Apple iMac - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 May 1998

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