Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!ucsbuxa!6600dadg From: 6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Basic questions from a potential Next customer Keywords: next Message-ID: <8707@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 18:13:52 GMT References: <813@sdrc.UUCP> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Lines: 27 In article ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) writes: >You have to pay for the "Extended OS" floppy disk set, which costs >about $100. The full OS 2.0 takes up ~200 MB. My copy of the NeXT sales brochures tell me that the full OS software release is licensed to *all* NeXT owners, so you can either buy the "Extended Release" on floppy for a "nominal charge" or copy it from another NeXT owner. I think NeXT should be applauded for this policy. +-------------------+---------------------------+------------------+ | Mark Dadgar | 6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | Bill & Opus -'92 | +-------------------+---------------------------+------------------+ | From the dolequeue to the regiment a profession in a flash, | | But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash. | | On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier count the cost. | | For a second you'll be famous but labelled posthumous. | | Forgotten Sons. Forgotten Sons. | | - Marillion, 1983 | +----------Would UCSB write anything this intelligent?-------------+ -- +-------------------+---------------------------+------------------+ | Mark Dadgar | 6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | Bill & Opus -'92 | +-------------------+---------------------------+------------------+ | From the dolequeue to the regiment a profession in a flash, |