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From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty)
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Subject: Re: A good 'personal' computer?
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Date: 23 Aug 89 16:29:00 GMT
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In article <3507@asylum.SF.CA.US> langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) writes:
>In article <21516@cup.portal.com> Jeff_A_Scott@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>The floppy drive issue seems to come up pretty often here.  I don't have a
>cube, so I don't know for sure, but isn't there supposedly a SCSI port on the
>beast?

This is a common mistake to make.  Having a scsi port does not mean
that any scsi device will work.  Each different device requires a
driver, and I would imagine (though I have never tried or even thought
about it more than superficially) that porting a driver for some scsi
device would be non-trivial to the Next, since it uses a unique io
system (unique among systems that scsi is typically found on).  

I still feel very strongly that there needs to be a lower-cost,
smaller-sized removable media for the next (for the purposes of
distribution, mainly) but I am not advocating a step backwards by
putting a floppy drive on it.  I was sort of hoping that something along
the lines of those mini-cds could be utilized, but that may be a
naive desire based on my complete lack of knowledge as to how the
`magneto-optical' disk works.

Christopher Welty  ---  Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche:  Fahren in
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