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In article <7421@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero) writes:
 >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

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).

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