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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Hard Drive Options and the Extended Version?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 23:59:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.223213.21832@macc.wisc.edu>
yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) writes:

>Anybody want to take a stab at this question? According to a note
>from NeXT the 400 meg version containing Release 2.0 Extended has
>180 megs of freespace and the 660 meg version has 405 megs free.

>Inotherwords Release 2.0 Extended takes up 220 megs on the 400 meg
>disk and it occupies 255 meg on the 660 meg disk. Can anyone 
>explain what the difference is? Thanks! - Ross

An additional complication, I think, is that these figures
for the empty disk size are not quite accurate, as far as I
can tell.  My new cube has a nominal 660MB disk, but the
Info panel reports total capacity as 633MB.  I was thinking
of the 400 if I get a 'station for home.

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