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From: dorn@fabscal.UUCP (Alan Dorn Hetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <526@fabscal.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 20:17:21 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <596@pcrat.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorn@fabscal.UUCP (Alan Dorn Hetzel, Jr.)
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In article <596@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>
>Because even "free" software will cost $50 on an eraseable optical disk,
>at least for the next several years.  Plus, there is no "standard" eraseable
>optical disk, and 256MB is just too small (given other announced alternatives)
>to make me believe that it will be the standard.

Well, 360K was WAY to small to be the standard floppy, but there are sure
a lot of them out there.  Standards are rarely out on the edge of capability,
tending towards the more affordable lower half of what is possible.  I think
that the 256MB removable has a good chance of becoming something of a standard
if NeXT sells many systems.

Dorn
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