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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 .

Life is good,
Maurice

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