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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT Pricing (Was: Re: Mac pricing and the future of the Mac)
Message-ID: <7421@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 89 22:09:52 GMT
References: <2439@tank.uchicago.edu> <MY-bjLy00XoiM1H0hv@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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In article <MY-bjLy00XoiM1H0hv@andrew.cmu.edu> mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes:
>  I am told that NeXT will not be selling any machines w/out a
>hard drive until sometime in 1990, due to reliability concerns about the
>floptical drive.
>If this is in fact the case, the minimum price of a running NeXT box goes to
>$8855.  *Sigh.*


I believe the concern is not so much reliability as a software issue--
unmounting the file system where your swap space lives while the
machine is running can be a bit tricky... ;-)  I'd heard they'd have
that fixed for 1.0, but maybe they won't.  We'll know in a few months,
I guess.

-Antonio Romero    romero@confidence.princeton.edu