Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 88 23:20:20 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <449@oracle.UUCP> <4005@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <458@oracle.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 > William Somsky argues that the machine would tend to be used >as a standalone PC. I argue that the machine would be used as a >networked workstation. A removable optical disk is the wrong medium for student lab use. If you've got file servers, you want the software to be stored there. If there's any removable medium at all, you want it to be something cheap like a floppy, for a student to put his own files on. Unless they provide some way to lock a given optical disk in the machine permanently, we sure can't put a system like that out in public.