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From: muir@postgres.uucp (David Muir Sharnoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Keywords: 256 MB is a lot or not enough
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Date: 16 Oct 88 08:06:18 GMT
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In article <1152@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes:
>A couple points about the 256 MB optical drive I have not seen mentioned.
>Summarizing my opinions, a 256 MB optical disk drive seems a tad too large or
>too small to be a really useful media system.
>
>Case A) - Software Distribution.
>
>Case B) - Backup

I think you are missing the main point of the machine: it is for students.
As a student I am not given anywhere close to 256MB of disk space.  It would
be *wonderful* to be able to carry around a laser disk with all of 
my files on it.   

Case C) - Portable User File System

-Dave