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Article #1791Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
From: John Moore
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 15:52
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 15:52
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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
]in article <360@elan.UUCP>, jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) says:
]
]One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
]removable erasable optical disk? AND, why the hell have a typical SCSI
^^^^^^^^
]tape drive for archival purposes, when you have a 256MB removable
]optical disk? I suspect that the optical drive is there as a
And if you accidently type "rm -r *" or something equivalent?
If its erasable, it needs a backup.
And, as was mentioned before, how about software distribution? The
removable disk media costs ~$50.00!
Finally, does anyone know which "magneto-optical" technology is
being used on the drive and how it works?
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John Moore (NJ7E) {decvax, ncar, ihnp4}!noao!nud!anasaz!john
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The opinions expressed here are obviously not mine, so they must be
someone else's. :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!noao!asuvax!anasaz!john From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: <1390@anasaz.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 15:52:01 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ Lines: 22