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Article #33146Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
From: Hank Dietz
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 16:35
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 16:35
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In article <73003@sun.uucp>, swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson) writes: > In article <635@ardent.UUCP> kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes: > >In article <72886@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes: [Much stuff about the optical disk...] Certainly, it is possible to make a randomly read/write/modify optical disk; isn't that what Tandy did just a short while ago? The things that bug me are: (1) Less than 300M of storage... that's less than an audio CD. Does this imply that the format is some brand new magic thing that nobody else will be using? (2) $50 each? It should be more like $15 each.... I wonder why it isn't? (3) One disk is the minimum you can run with, and we all know it's stupid to try that, but it sure makes the system price seem nicer.... I'd say that the one-disk system is a marketing hack comparable to selling cars with 3 tires and making the fourth one optional: who's not gonna buy the extra tire? Most of us will even buy a spare.... -hankd
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!hankd From: hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.arch Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting) Summary: NeXT Message-ID: <9480@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 16:35:20 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <73003@sun.uucp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 19