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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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
Message-ID: <1912@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Oct 88 15:55:31 GMT
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I can see an obvious thing to put on a 256mb optical drive... a student's
working environment. This is an alternate solution to the problem addressed
by Athena or Andrew... the student walks up to any NeXT machine on campus,
puts his $50 optical disk in, and reboots. Now it's *his* machine. The
workstation becomes the 1990s version of a 1980s floppy-based campus PC.

Of course the security problems this would cause a network are obvious... I
hope the NeXTwork (heh) has more in common with Athena than NFS.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"            peter@ficc.uu.net