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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Religion
Message-ID: <20560@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 90 16:31:36 GMT
References: <20467@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
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In article <20467@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> I wrote:
>
>	"There is only one religious issue at NeXT -- no floppy disk."
>

Funny how this turned into a discussion of the viability of the OD and
other storage mediums.  My impression at that time was that NeXT's
were going to academia and the vast majority would be on the Internet.
Who needs a floppy when you're on the net?

It seemed that if there was a basis for this "religious" issue it was
the machine's networking focus, not it's OD focus.


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu		DoD 000006
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251