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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 7 Nov 90 19:13:03 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.160943.19804@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Holden Chang) writes:
>
>If you have a NeXT at home, you had better know Unix, because you are
>effectively system manager for that computer. When something goes wrong
>you need some clue about Unix to fix it. Also when you add new equipment.
>(Someone earlier said that one of the advantages of the Next was that you
>could add any arbitrary disk drive, but surely that requires modifying some
>files to tell the computer what the drive can/cannot do.) For ease-of-use,
>the Next may equal the Mac. For system maintenance, it's much more complicated.

Adding disk drives was a real problem in the original cube, according to a
friend of mine who has one.  He has lots of trouble getting his 300MB Wren
working right.  (seems the disktab parameters the Wren people told him just
wouldn't work, and kept eating 20MB or so)


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