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From: edwardm@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Basic system
Message-ID: <-290109996@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 21:23:34 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>It depends on what you consider "work".  If you are developing applications
>then you need a hard disk.  The optical doesn't cut it for that.
>
...
>           How slow can the system be without me going nuts? A couple
>of comparisons I would make off the top of my head would be (this is
>only for development work on the NeXT):
>
>Development on NeXT with only Optical =
>					Microsoft Windows on an 8088
>					Apple's MPW on a floppy Mac Plus
>In other words: get a hard disk.					
>

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Okay...  Could SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT FUNCTIONS (of S/W
         Development, etc...) WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLY SLOW?

I really don't accept the notion that S/W development is particularly
more resource (e.g. CPU, disc,...) intensive than any/all application
execution.  After all, compilers (and Interface Builder and...) are
merely applications themselves.  I think that is why the original
poster asked the question.

ed "SCSI disks getting cheaper every day" mcclanahan