Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Diskless NeXT's?? Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 89 20:24:46 GMT References: <1989Aug8.192101.3060@ee.rochester.edu> Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Distribution: na Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 18 In-reply-to: jal@ee.rochester.edu's message of 8 Aug 89 19:21:01 GMT In article <1989Aug8.192101.3060@ee.rochester.edu> jal@ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) writes: We have a student laboratory filled with some NeXT's That may have been your first mistake :-) Thus the question - is it possible to defeat the optical disk for purposes of system boot without completely disabling the optical? Apparently not. If this is not possible now, would NeXT consider such an option in the near future. Universities want to know. Depends upon what you mean by "near future." We've been asking this sort of optical/security question for over a year now, with no satisfactory answer. At this point, NeXT is so busy trying to achieve its own agenda in a measurable timeframe that it doesn't seem to have many resources left to spend making the cube useful to universities.