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Article #33556Re: Does NeXT have a 3.5" floppy?
From: David Finkelstein
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 17:42
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 17:42
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In article <40819@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spohrer-james@yale.UUCP writes: >From: James Spohrer <spohrer-james> > >Does the NeXT machine have an 800K or 1.5M floppy system? >It seems that in an educational market you want to be able >to share programs, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost >$50. The joy of the under $1.00 diskettes is that you >can freely give them away, whereas the $50 CD diskettes >would be too expensive. > >- Jim Spohrer >spohrer@yale.edu >------- The NeXT machine does not have any sort of floppy drive, and I doubt it ever will. You're right that you want to be able to share programs, files, data, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost $50. How about your campus Ethernet? Why cart programs around on a floppy when you can access them with NFS from across the campus? Of course if you don't have a campus Ethernet you're out of luck. But I think that's one of the reasons Jobs included built-in Ethernet and TCP/IP support. I just hope you don't have to open a terminal window and type someting like "mount -t nfs serv:/usr/src /usr/src"; I hope Jobs made the user interface better than that. ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Finkelstein |davef@jessica.stanford.edu Academic Information Resources |davef%jessica@stanford.bitnet Stanford University | Just say "please."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!labrea!Portia!Jessica!davef From: davef@Jessica.stanford.edu (David Finkelstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Does NeXT have a 3.5" floppy? Message-ID: <3984@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 20 Oct 88 17:42:12 GMT References: <40819@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Sender: news@Portia.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: davef@Jessica.stanford.edu (David Finkelstein) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 29