Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!rex!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!haugelan From: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Haugeland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT OS size Summary: What I was told in Pittsburgh Message-ID: <40338@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 01:42:33 GMT References: <26f8b87d.20d@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Reply-To: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Haugeland) Distribution: usa Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 23 The NeXT representative here in Pittsburgh (Eastern Regional Headquarters) told me today that everybody who buys a new NeXT machine automatically gets a license for the entire OS release -- that is, NeXTStep 2.0 extended. The trouble is (as several people have noticed) that won't all fit on the standard 105 mb drive that comes with the "Slab" machines. So the company has preselected about 70 mb that they think will be most useful to most people and called that NeXTStep 2.0 Standard. But, if you don't like their choices, you can choose whatever you want, subject only to the problem of physically transferring it. (He speculated that they might arrange to distribute the stuff on a "stack" of floppys for the cost of media plus copying.) In the meantime, all you need to do is buy a larger hard disk (either from NeXT or from somebody else) and you can have it all. In other words, they've simply offered us a new option: buy less hard disk than the previous minimum, and a correspondingly lower price (in fact, a GREAT price!), and take our choice of the software distribution, or buy enough hard disk to hold it all, and take it all. Who could complain about that? I think it's a terrific policy. John Haugeland haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu