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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next minimal SW-configuration
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Date: 17 Oct 90 23:06:07 GMT
References: <11594@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <1990Oct17.190226.12997@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Oct17.190226.12997@midway.uchicago.edu>, scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) writes:
|> 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...
|> 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

The software release 2.0 should include a thing called Install.app or
something similar. This program will allow you to install and deinstall
single components off the release. This way everyone can decide what
they want to have locally or centrally stored. So I think NeXT has taken
care of that. You just need to put in a little bit of work and you need
to have access to the full distribution.

-- Ronald
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