Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!jlemon From: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: <6634@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 20 Oct 88 02:23:23 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <449@oracle.UUCP> <4005@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <458@oracle.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Jonathan Lemon) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 In article hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >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. Why bother with floppies? What's wrong with the optical disk? I buy one optical disk at $50, and use it on the cube from then on out. Compare this to having to buy, oh, "The Red Dragon Book" at $40, and use it for only one semester before it goes in my 'reference heap' with the other books I have. -- Jonathan ...ucbvax!cory!jlemon