Subj : man's most serious activity is play
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Oct 16 2022 20:45:36

Hey Charles!

 CB> what I meant was they are both pretty much the same thing in that
 CB> they're solid state "flash drives".

Yes although some are definetly flashier than others, as well as much more expensive, such as the 3.5" SCSI flash drives which were literally thousands of dollars.

 CB> the other is a "Cartridge" with a regular IDE connector.

Ah!  Yes I have two of those; a 40 pin ide as well as a 44 pin model that was better I thought since no power cable was needed.  The ones I was talking about looked like those except they plugged into a special usb port on the motherboard instead of plugging into an ide interface.  The only ones I ever saw advertized for them was made by Intel and never really took off for whatever reason.

Of all the flash disks I have seen thus far the sata ones are the best overall, although I must say the nvme jobbers I am enjoying muchly.  The only problem with them is they aren't hotswappable whereas sata ones are.  All things considered sata is the way to go.

 CB> i have legit keys and isos for OS5.0.7, Xenix

I found a iso for "Tru64 UNIX 5.1B" which is the last official version (2012).  Also there is much documentation provided so hopefully this won't be as painful as I am thinking it will be.  We'll see.

 CB> as long as it reads right at block level who cares

It definetly does what dd is meant to do ... or at least everything I use dd for.  However my main boxes still have the dd supplied by coreutils which works just as well for those identical tasks.  The thing is that there are choices and that is a good thing <patent pending>.

Life is good,
Maurice

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