Re: System software on CD-ROM

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From: Steve Dorner
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 18:40

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In article <572@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton) writes:
>If I get a system with 8MB of memory, then is it silly to have a floppy
>drive which cannot read an 8MB disk?  I didn't think so.  ;-)

Jobs put a 256MB floppy on his NeXT machines.  People complain about
that, 'cuz the media is $50.

Moral of the story: You can't please all of the people ANY of the time.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner
IfUMust:  (217) 244-1765

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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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