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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: New NeXTs rumored out September 18
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Date: 27 Aug 90 17:38:07 GMT
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In article <287@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>Great!---I guess that makes our originals collectors items! :-)

There is an upgrade possibility that will cost around 1000$, so it is
up to you if you want to have a collectors item...

>The optical drive was one of the greatest, and most useful, innovations
>of the cube. Sorry to see it go.

I'd be sorry, too.

>Also, the predicted 100 Mb hard drive + _no optical_ just isn't
>going to cut it---thats not enough to store distribution 1.0 !?!

I still hope that is only for swapping plus things like a couple of
shell commands and shared libraries, to make the load of a network go
down. I hope not they belive a full system is going to fit on these
100MB.

Ronald

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