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From: engstrom@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Eric Engstrom)
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Subject: Re: NeXT OS size
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Date: 20 Sep 90 17:22:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: dhom@spica.acs.calpoly.edu's message of 20 Sep 90 12:39:25 GMT

In article <26f8b87d.20d@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> dhom@spica.acs.calpoly.edu (David Hom) writes:

> I hope this hasn't been addressed already,  but how do they fit the
> OS on a 105Mb HD?  The 256Mb Optical Software Release 1.0 came on was
> pretty full.  Are there features missing?

The info I got Tuesday (sept 18) night at the Minn. NeXT UG from a NeXT
sales rep was that the 105 drives come loaded with the "standard" 2.0
distribution.  This was a pared down version of the "extended" distrib.
which comes on larger drives (I think).  The standard dist. does not
include some of the more "developer" type items.

While I don't have a list of the stuff on/not-on this distribution, I do
remember that the list of stuff NOT on the "standard" included the
following:
 - debuggers (Ariel-DSP, Malloc (new)), 
 - numerous demo applications (YAP sticking in my mind),
 - much of the GNU software (gdb included), 
 - AppInspector (new),
 - some documentation (Shakespeare, pictures for webster, 
			and, I think, some tech docs.), and
 - InterfaceBuilder. 

Perhaps some NeXT person could tell us the rationale of the choices (and
supply us with a more complete list? :-)

I also seem to remember that the space taken by the distribution was
around 75Mb, leaving less than 30Mb free for other apps.

It seems to me that the best use of this setup would be a self-booting
NeXTStation which used the extra 30Mb for swap space and accessed a
server Cube for any other software (including the developer stuff)

Eric
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