Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!caen!uflorida!bikini!bb From: bb@sandbar.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Default applications shipped on the 105 Meg drive Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 07:21:52 GMT References: <20392.2784f527@oregon.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: /cis/lightning0/bb/.organization Lines: 37 In-reply-to: joe@oregon.uoregon.edu's message of 5 Jan 91 05:35:34 GMT joe@oregon.uoregon.edu writes: > How about semi-custom or fully-custom software installation on 105 > Meg hard disks? I disagree. The slab is clearly designed as a network station, not as a standalone. If you want a standalone, purchase one - NeXT makes sure to sell you a reasonable amount of disk with a cube for standalone use. Remember that NeXT's corporate philosophy is to raise the common denominator. This philosophy does not match with your suggestions of throwing away large parts of the oh-so-valuable bundle, just to make it barely fit on a too-small drive. I think it a bonus that NeXT bothered to strip things down to fit at all, rather than leaving the first cut of this to network system administrators. Perhaps what needs to happen is for NeXT to stop selling slabs to people who want to use them as standalones, just as they initially didn't sell to Universities that wouldn't own up to the fact of maintenance. Would you prefer this? A more reasonable route would be to educate potential slab buyers via the net that slabs do not make reasonable standalones without the addition of at least 200 Meg of disk - and that they probably won't be happy if they choose to violate this guideline - and that this is an unsupported configuration that they will have to set up by themselves. There. Y'all are warned now. -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu