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In article <1152@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes:
>Disk shuffling will still be a problem, escpecially if people
>implement 100+ networks of NeXT machines, each of which need to be
>backed up.

Gaak!  You're still thinking in personal computer terms, not
workstation terms.  Remember, this machine is for a University's
networked workstation environnment.  It's not intended for the home
market!  That's not snobbishness, it's a marketing choice.

The reason the thing has no Winchester by default is (a) it makes more
sense as a diskfree workstation talking over the network to a NFS file
server (local / and /usr are *hard* to administer in the 100's); and
(b) so that the appropriate amount of Winchester storage can be added
in the case that someone needs to configure one as a server or the
very occasional standalone.

In this environment, the optifloppy is used for software distribution.
If a NeXT machine is a server, it can be used for dump or rdump.
Usually, though, dumps will be done to a central server's 1/2" tape
drive.  The optifloppy on an individual workstation in a lab will be
used the same way students use magfloppies on Macintoshes now: to
carry around their personal work in their backpacks from lab to lab.
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