Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Version 2.1 of the OS??? Message-ID: <1991Mar16.010412.25643@math.ucla.edu> Date: 16 Mar 91 01:04:12 GMT References: <12395@adobe.UUCP> <8932@plains.NoDak.edu> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 35 Yes, version 2.1 is now shipping---I just got a message from neXT yesterday. NeXT lists 10 bugs that have been fixed in this new release (including the infamous motorola tanh() bug). In article <8932@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes: >> >Version 2.1 of the OS is now out??? How can we get upgrades of it then and >is that the reason that the Extended Backups are taking so long to get >distributated? > 2.1 merely changes those portions of 2.0 that need changing---it does not replace the entire 2.0 OS. Thus it is not that big. According to the message I got from Next: "The product consists of 2.88 MB flopppy disks and an instruction manual; the update wont be provided on any other media. Please note this product is being sold at NeXT's cost." "Licensing fees are not assocoiated with each copy of the update software. Thus the Update Set grants the buyer a license to copy and install the NeXT Set software on *any* NeXT computer for which the NeXT software release 2.0 has been previously licensed." The update is product number N7022 (the Update Set 2.1); call 1-800-848-NeXT for assistance. The cost is $50.00 Note that $50 buys about 7 2.88MB floppies, so there must only be around 20MB of changes to make (or maybe 40MB uncompressed). -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)