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From: kean@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT vs Sun3
Keywords: Next Sun3
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Date: 20 Oct 89 18:10:40 GMT
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I ran my cube at home for 3 months off an optical drive before I bought my nice
big Wren V.  Optical only is a wee bit slow; NeXT has remedied that as of last
Tuesday, by distributing a 40 Mb scsi disk with each optical only cube for the
kernel to swap to (called the "accelerator").  Same price as the original
optical only cube (6500.00 base) and, NeXT is (according to the campus rep)
shipping 40 Mb scsi drives to those who purchased an optical only system.


kean





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