Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!samsung!usc!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NextStep 2.0 Keywords: nextstep, 2.0 Message-ID: <1081@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 15:56:08 GMT References: Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 33 In article john@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu (John R. Schutz) writes: >Howdy all. While I am waiting ever so patiently for my '040 upgrade >(March sometime? jeeesh), 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. Anyways, Duplicating isn't so hard... Finding something to duplicate onto appears to be the problem :-). Someone, somewhere, seriously misjudged demand for blank r/w optical disks. What I would propose is to buy the license only (no media) from NeXT or B'land (good luck in getting the University to sell this) for the ~ $65 that it costs. Take the license and a blank optical to someone who has 2.0 installed (yes there are a lucky few :-) and do a BuildDisk. Can someone in-the-know comment on the feasibility (legality etc.) of doing this? Of course you still have the problem of finding a blank optical. However, this appears to be somewhat easier than getting ahold of 2.0. >are there any colleges out there that have a copy in stock (on optical >preferably) that they can sell to us at educational prices? Any info >appreciated. Not likely that you could buy from another University. You might be able to get someone to buy for you (questionable). Most likely, other Universities are having the same problem. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com