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From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's coming?
Summary: optical mini-disk a must
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Date: 7 Aug 89 16:00:19 GMT
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In article <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>NeXt should redesign the optical drive to take tiny weeny small disks
>that cost only $5, like the cheap small CD's that have come out,
>or break down and install a real floppy for distribution purposes.
>

In case someone from NeXT is watching, I would like to strongly second
this idea.  As a potential developer, the costs of distribution and
upgrades to software are currently prohibitive.  Imagine shipping a
256 megabyte disk with 2 meg of data on it....


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