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From: robiner@ganelon.usc.edu (Steve)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: NeXT Software Developers
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Date: 17 Oct 88 23:49:07 GMT
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First of all, I've heard rumors that the blank optical disks for NeXT
will be in the $50 range.  Can anyone confirm this?

Now, given that, how will software distributers feel about marketing
stuff for a system which can only read media witha $50 fixed cost?  
The only alternatives I can see are:

1) bring your own CD disk down to the store with you and they copy it on
   ( dangerous, especially if you have other valuable data on it already )

2) download it with the 9600 'modem'.
   ( time consuming and someone's still got to pay the phone bill )

3) Tar tape distribution, and hope enough people are NFS'ed to mainframes.
   ( limited to certain users, and still expensive )

=Steve=