Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!olivea!bu.edu!wang!ice From: ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Merits of DOS vs NeXT SCSI HD Formats ? Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 15:12:03 GMT References: <1991Mar8.083953.11933@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar8.104541.8592@wam.umd.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 16 cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: >In article <1991Mar8.104541.8592@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: > I spoke with someone yesterday at Insignia Solutions, and was told that > SoftPC ships on 1.44meg DOS-format floppies. The reason, he said, was so > that folks like me, who don't have a NeXT floppy, can use my IBM > compatible to load the software onto my Cube (via ftp/nfs/whatever). >I wonder how much the price and availability of the medium factored >into it? Probably duplication of the media is the biggest issue. As long as you use DOS-formatted 1.44 MB floppies, you can go to your friendly neighborhood disk duplication service and have 100 copies made in a few hours. I *strongly* doubt you could do that with 2.88's :-) -- Fredrik Nyman [NeXT: ice@red-zinger.wang.COM] Global Adaptation Center BITNET: , Wang Laboratories, Inc., M/S 019-490, One Industrial Ave., Lowell MA 01851, USA