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From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <13870@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:15:17 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:

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

$50 is awfully expensive media for commercial software distribution when
a few $1 diskettes are the norm (retail price comparisons, of course).
The lack of a diskette drive also hampers data exchange with other micros.

Bradley Dyck Kliewer