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From: aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced
Message-ID: <28200214@urbsdc>
Date: 17 Oct 88 05:22:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew    Oct 17 00:22:00 1988


>Funny, no one is complaining that their SUN 3/60 doesn't have a floppy
>disk on it.  Why should the NeXT box?  Or do you think this is just a
>super-duper IBM-PC?  I thought that this thing was a WORKSTATION targeted
>at Universities.. some some PC or Mac clone.
>
>Excuse me if I offended those of you who think PC and Mac class machines
>are workstations.  Hey, I've got an Amiga 2000 at home, and I don't delude
>myself in thinking of it in the same class as a Sun or MicroVAX.
>
>Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
>University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming

Well, here is one person who *DOES* complain that his SUN does not
have a floppy. I'm even going to the extent of pricing SCSI floppies,
Bernouilli boxes, *anything* that is dismountable storage that
I can have in my office.

Centralized systems with big disks and tape backups are great,
but there is no way that a cartridge tape is as convenient as
a floppy for small objects. Especially if you've got a SUN 3/50,
and have to walk to the other end of the building to use 
a cartridge tape.

Man, I think that every machine from a Gould PN to a Cray should have
personal, dismountable, storage right in the office - in my terminal,
if you will.


Andy "Krazy" Glew. 
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