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From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sys 2.0 on CD-ROM?
Message-ID: <16764@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:07:29 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <2199@beguine.UUCP> Robert.Wolov@samba.acs.unc.edu (Robert Wolov) writes:
>With the promised release of a CD-ROM reader for the cube (as well as 
>3rd party drives) are there any plans to release NeXT system software
>on CD-ROMS? This would seem an ideal medium as an option. I asked
>my local NeXT SE who claims that there would be copyright problems.

I would say that if I had a cd-rom drive I would very MUCH want
system software to be distributed on cd-rom.  It clearly makes
more sense to get (or press) a single cd-rom instead of all those
floppies.

On the other hand, NeXT could take a clue from Sun.  In order to
squish the SunOS 4.1.1 distribution onto 2 tapes, they compressed
most of the operating system files.  Doing this would considerably
reduce the number of required floppy disks.

Of course, I doubt that NeXT will listen to us....we're only customers
and developers.

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-John H. Osborn
-osborn@cs.utexas.edu