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From: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Cost of floptical s/w distribution
Summary: Enough of this nonsense
Message-ID: <17095@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Oct 88 22:30:13 GMT
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Give me a break.  Seems like the machine is getting a bad rap for following
a practice that has been commonplace in the industry.  NeXT's are not Macs
(or PC's for that matter).  They are built for a clustered environment and
as such should be treated as such (otherwise, what use is the ethernet).
You don't complain that your SUN doesn't have as floppy drive so don't
complain about the NeXT.  Never heard of anyone having to buy a tape unit
before.  Look at it this way, you only need one drive per cluster.

By the way, move this to comp.next.

Name: Eric A. Raymond
ARPA: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
SLOW: NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035

Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)