Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!draco!carlton From: carlton@draco (Mike Carlton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT Pricing (Was: Re: Mac pricing and the future of the Mac) Message-ID: <11507@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Mar 89 04:07:37 GMT References: <2439@tank.uchicago.edu> <7421@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: carlton@draco (Mike Carlton) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 28 In article <7421@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero) writes: >In article 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 A couple of details on the Next situation. They will sell you an optical based system (we have one in our group). They have promised an optical-to- optical copy ability in the 0.9 release, due in mid-April. The optical seek times are kinda slow, so you really are better off with a SCSI based system if you can afford it (we have one in our office and it is great). -- Mike Carlton, UC Berkeley Computer Science | More bits, carlton@ji.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton | Give me more bits.