Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: No color this fall? Message-ID: <8513@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 90 19:17:26 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology Lines: 31 In article smithw@mathnx.byu.edu (William V. Smith) writes: > The 256-Mbyte >magneto-optical disc will be dropped in favor of a 2.8 Mbyte >floppy disk from Sony, and it will ship with a 200-Mbyte >hard disk and 8 Mbytes of RAM." > >Now what do you think of that one?! If it's true, then NeXT's product development management is ready for giggle camp. How exactly one will install 200MB of software on a 200MB hard disk, leaving space for paging and user files is beyond me (perhaps there's a clever compression scheme involving the DSP). More to the point, the number of people would care to load a system from 75 floppies is probably limited. Then there's the peculiarity of using a non-existent version of the '040 with not enough memory. As for the pizza box, will it have a Sun logo on the front? (Why would NeXT suddenly use somebody else's design?) And who exactly would the market be? This box would certainly be no cheaper than the current one. It's not exactly a credible rumour. -- \ Vincent Manis "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394