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From: chari@juniper.uucp (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Comments on NeXT.
Message-ID: <5153@juniper.uucp>
Date: 4 Oct 88 02:29:55 GMT
References: <9377@swan.ulowell.edu> <4923@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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In article <4923@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <9377@swan.ulowell.edu>, rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers) says:
>
>That'd be my guess, too.  Though that new Sony drive ain't exactly what I'd 
>call cheap.  And it's slow, too, just a bit slower than the super-el-cheapo
>discount 20 meg hard disks around these days for < $200.  Then again, if you
>think of it as an expensive ~300 meg floppy disk, it's not a bad thing.  But
>it's gonna need a real hard drive, methinks.

I had heard that it was a 12ms drive with transfer rates of about 1meg/second.
Is that wrong? I can't put my finger on where I heard that though, so I could
be off a bit. 

I really wish October 12 would come so that some of this speculation would turn
into a productive discussion of the machine's strengths and weaknesses.
I am dying to get my hands on one and see what its made of. I don't like this
kernel in ROM stuff though, I'd like to be able to tinker with it some.

Chris

 


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