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From: mark@navtech.uucp (Mark Stevans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.
Message-ID: <192@navtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 88 07:45:06 GMT
References: <0XMtqn087E-0A14EYk@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: mark@navtech.UUCP (Mark Stevans)
Organization: Navigation Technologies Corp., Sunnyvale, CA.
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In article <0XMtqn087E-0A14EYk@andrew.cmu.edu> rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes:
> Floppy drives are cheap ($100-$200) so one can easily have 2 and thus copying
>is also easy (How many people could afford 2 optical drives?)
>
>In any case if NeXT ever wants to move into the home market then they'll NEED
>floppies.

But NeXT has not announced any plans to enter the home market.  The intended
configuration of NeXT machines seems to be bunch of them on a LAN in
some University computer center.  It will be quite easy to backup your optical
disk over the Ethernet from one NeXT machine's single optical drive to its
neighbor's.

I hope we will ease up on these intensely egotistical "Boy I'm gonna tell the
world where Steve Jobs screwed up" articles until we get first-hand experience
with the product.  At present, almost everything we know is based upon his own
meticulously scripted (and scored) product introduction and press releases --
I have enough confidence in the man (albeit second-hand) to trust him not to
make mistakes of such magnitude that they would be intuitively obvious to
outsiders such as ourselves.  In all probability, these mysterious gaps serve
to conceal his genius, rather than to reveal his ignorance.

						Mark "Spiny" Stevans
						spar!navtech!mark