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From: forbes@s3.csrd.uiuc.edu (Michael Scott Forbes)
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Subject: Re: (Various Symantec Policies) Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:02:31 GMT
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anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony,,,) writes:
>From article <4607@husc6.harvard.edu>, by siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel):

>> Also, in the first Next machine,
>> the only medium of distribution for software were the removable optical
>> disks. Because a floptical costs about $50 per unit, it's impractical
>> for software houses to distribute their programs on them, given that
>> most consumer software these days costs in the below $300 range. It's
>> much cheaper to deliver software on floppies.
>> 

>Right.  And all new NeXT machines have floppy drives.  This argument is no
>longer relevant.

Your argument is irrelevant.  Resistance is futile.  ;-)
Unless NeXT was good enough to retrofit the *old* machines with floppy drives,
this argument is still very relevant.  The existing base of machines does not
have floppy drives, and has no inexpensive media for software distribution.
If I were a software developer, I would keep this in mind.

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Scott Forbes			University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
strustee@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	#define flame_war "Not another NeXT defector??"