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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <596@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 00:53:04 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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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?

Because even "free" software will cost $50 on an eraseable optical disk,
at least for the next several years.  Plus, there is no "standard" eraseable
optical disk, and 256MB is just too small (given other announced alternatives)
to make me believe that it will be the standard.
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