Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: Filesystem problems, CD-ROM, Scene_Images Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <1991Apr20.062826.19543@engin.umich.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 18:41:10 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1991Apr20.062826.19543@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes: > (I'll probably get barbecued for this, but what the heck) I > discovered that NextStep software does indeed exist on CD-ROM. I heard > elsewhere that NeXT uses CD-ROM discs internally, and now I have seen *with > my own eyes* such a beastie. So get on that phone, all you NeXTstation > owners, and tell NeXT that you'd pay for such a thing (only, of course, if > you really would). I, for one, would be very interested in getting NeXT system releases on CD-ROM. I am part of the NeXT support for the RPI campus, and I'd much rather deal with one CD-ROM than a handful of floppies. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA