Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)

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From: Joel Spolsky
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1988 14:37

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In article <453@oracle.UUCP> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
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| Random question for the day...  Suppose I buy one of these NeXT
| boxes, and I buy, say, a 30MB hard disk drive with 20 ms seek times
| for something less than $1000.  Now, I attach this little drive
| to my SCSI port.  At this point, I basically teach the operating
| system to use the disk as a cache for the slower optical drive.

You could easily mount /tmp and /bin on the fast hard disk, as well
as some swap space, which would speed things up significantly.

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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 17 Oct 88 14:37:59 GMT
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