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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re: music was:Will the Next sell?
Message-ID: <130041@gore.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 02:32:47 GMT
References: <1989Dec3.235945.29655@ntvax.uucp>
Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) / Dec  5, 1989 /
> As you may well know, it is possible to configure an XT with an
> ethernet adapter for under 1000 dollars..
> [...]
> So, just distribute the NeXT programs on PC or Mac disks, then
> use ether net to copyit to your NeXT machine, whats the problem?

Yeah!
  And for aesthetic reasons, we hide the XT (motherboard, Ethernet card,
and disk drive) inside a Cube.
  Then we write an RFLOPPYD.EXE program and invoke it from AUTOEXEC.BAT,
and write a /dev/fd driver that talks to it over the net.
  Then we optimize by avoiding MSDOS, and making an EEPROM with RFLOPPYD
in it.
  Then we optimize further by avoiding the Ethernet, and just running a
SCSI cable from the NeXT Cube to the disk drive in the second Cube.
  Then we optimize further by removing the XT's motherboard and Ethernet
card from the second Cube.

Look... if floppies are introduced to the NeXT, might as well do it right.

> whats the problem?

A PC networked to a NeXT is not part of The Common Denominator.

Jacob
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