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From: scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next minimal SW-configuration
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.190226.12997@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 19:02:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: reberhar@iiic.ethz.ch (Rolf Georg Eberhardt)

In article <11594@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, reberhar@iiic (Rolf Georg Eberhardt) writes:
>Hi netland
>
>Does anybody know the space requirements for the extended sw release
>if stuff like the Shakespeare works, spelling checker, thesaurus,
>manuals (I would buy them in book-form, if they aren't expensive), etc.
>is thrown off ? As a stand-alone machine I wouldn't need any mail,
>or other net-specific features either...
>
>Thanks
>
>--rolf

Hmmm.. Now *that*'s a thought.  Would NeXT be willing to ship a
version of the 2.0 disk for machines that are going to be on a local
net with other NeXTs that have the full distribution?  It would be
awfully nice if somebody would go through the trouble of figuring out
what you really ought to keep on a local disk and what (like
/NextLibrary, /NextDeveloper, ...) you can really afford to access
over the net.  How about an option in the installation process?  Is
the (full) 2.0 distribution identical on the various hardware
combinations?
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