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Article #39943Re: NeXT Pricing (Was: Re: Mac pricing and the future of the Mac)
From: C. Antonio Romero
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1989 22:09
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1989 22:09
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!caromero 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) Distribution: usa Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 15