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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Diskless NeXT StEP StATION Rumors.
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Date: 30 Jun 90 19:07:51 GMT
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We have 37 diskless NeXTs waiting to be installed. (To be precise, each
has a 40MB accelerator disk, used primarily for local paging. The
original version was delivered sans disk, but was found to create too
much network paging load. NeXT added the accelerator, and retrofitted
all existing machines at no cost. Now *that's* commitment to the
customer!)  It's more than a rumour.

There are currently 4 major configurations:

  Network user   (8MB, accelerator)
  Basic          (8MB, accelerator, OD)
  Developer      (8MB, 330MB hard disk, OD)
  Network server (16MB, 660MB hard disk, OD)

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