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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <9265@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 15 Oct 88 15:39:45 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) wrote:

> One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
> removable erasable optical disk?

Each one of those 256MB disks costs almost as much as a floppy disk
*drive*.  How do you propose NeXT to economically distribute updates &
software?  Certainly not on a $50 optical disk!
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