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From: wcarroll@encore.com (Mr. New Dad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: How big should a cheap hard disk be?
Message-ID: <127203@jake.encore.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 21:42:21 GMT
References: <2827@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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From article <2827@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, by jnicolas@atrp.media.mit.edu (Julian Nicolas):
> 
> I am thinking of adding a larger drive to a NeXT computer which is
> currently equiped with a 40 MB `accelerator' drive. I do not have a
> clear idea of what capacity I should go for (170 MB, 330MB ??) 
> 
> Julian Nicolas
> jnicolas@atrp.media.mit.edu

I thought the hard drive on a NeXT was just a unix swap disk and the
floptical was the file/data disk. If this is true, what could you
possibly need 40 MB, much less 170 MB, of swap disk for on what is 
basically a single-user box?

Am I totally off-base in my understanding of their literature? Does
the hard drive store files?



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