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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: <598@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 08:56:07 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1390@anasaz.UUCP> <3021@haven.umd.edu>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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In article <3021@haven.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>
>Funny, no one is complaining that their SUN 3/60 doesn't have a floppy
>disk on it.  Why should the NeXT box?  Or do you think this is just a

OK, then, let me be the first.  I find it totally inconvenient to have
to take my tar or cpio HD floppies and rewrite them to have the
the archive inside an MS-DOS file (great fun if the archive is bigger
than one disk), bring them in to work and down the hall to the PC,
and ftp them to the sun.  I've got *hundreds* of floppies with usable
source code (typically 1 or 2 HD disks per package), but what a pain
in the butt.  Return trip, same problem.

The story would be different if we'd been collecting software all along
on optical disk.  My whole library would fit on one of the Maxtor
1 gigabyte opticals, or 3 on the NeXT.  But that wasn't an option.
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