Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!hila.hut.fi!jmunkki From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NextStep 2.0 Message-ID: <1991Feb17.113832.2803@santra.uucp> Date: 17 Feb 91 11:38:32 GMT References: Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Reply-To: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Lines: 30 >john@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu (John R. Schutz) writes: >> I would like to upgrade to NextStep 2.0. >> The center here told us that they don't have any, 'but some are on >> order'. I really can't believe that NeXT is backlogged on the >> operating system, since all they have to do is duplicate it. anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) writes: >Yes, but to do that (so as to be useful for old cubes), they need >OD's. Which (apparently) they have not got. So we get to wait. We have now had a NeXTStation for about a month and we are still waiting for the 2.0 extended. Using a NeXT without the man pages and with practically no programs to speak of isn't fun. I wonder why NeXT has trouble duplicating 3.5" disks. This whole situation reminds me of 1984, when I had only MacWrite and MacPaint to use with my Macintosh. I also dislike the fact that 2.0 is not included on diskettes with the computers. Every other computer manufacturer that I know of provides an installable copy of the operating system. What happens if our NeXT disk is accidentally erased and I find out that I goofed when I made the backup? There's no way to boot the system and no way to restore the disk. We only have one NeXT, so we can't even use other computers for booting. ____________________________________________________________________________ / Juri Munkki / Helsinki University of Technology / Wind / Project / / jmunkki@hut.fi / Computing Center Macintosh Support / Surf / STORM / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~