Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1787 comp.os.misc:582 comp.misc:3783 comp.arch:6604 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! Message-ID: <40379@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 19:04:43 GMT References: <17479@gatech.edu> <1229@ndmath.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 25 In article <1229@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes: | My only comment so far....if the thing has only ONE optical disk and NO | other mass storage. Isn't it going to be kind of hard to copy software or | make backups? | | Even with 8 meg in the machine...there is going to be a LOT of disk swapping | to do if you want to make a duplicate copy of that 300 M optical disk! | | Is there an option for a second optical drive per chance? The NeXT box has two full-height 5.25" bays, one of which is taken up by the 256M optical disk. You can buy another optical disk for $1495, although because the optical disks are so slow (96-ms average seek time) I suspect many will buy the SCSI hard drives (e.g. 670MB for $3995) as their main drive. By the way, the optical disks have 30% redundancy for error correction which is why they only (!) hold 256M formatted. Tiny little critters. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include