🚀 go-pugleaf

nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes:
> > It seems that NeXT , for the time being, decided that third parties
> > would better fill the removable media niche.  Whether that was a
> > good decision or not, is your own opinion.  
> 
> What we lose by NeXT not proclaiming a standard for such
> larger removable media devices is the ability to
> interchange such media with other NeXTs, like
> we used to be able to with the original OD drives.

I'm buying a 256meg MO made by MOST.  I'm buying it because it will run on  
both my Mac and NeXT (and PC, if I cared about PC's), and because other NeXT  
and Mac users that I know have gone with this or with the 128meg MO format  
(which the 256meg drive is supposed to be able to do).

The point being that there is more to buying a drive than just what NeXT  
officially blesses.  If they blessed a drive that did not work on my Mac, I  
wouldn't buy it.  If they blessed something that I could not use when  
exchanging disks with other users that I know, I wouldn't buy it.  

I'd agree that it might be nice for NeXT to mention a blessed MO, but I  
don't really see why they should think they can dictate that market.  I also  
imagine there would be people who would take any such comment from NeXT the  
wrong way, and feel that NeXT would be pressuring them into buying yet  
another peripheral.

The only way NeXT could really drive the decision would be to start  
releasing something in an MO format.  If they do that they'll probably piss  
some people off.  If they don't do that, then whatever they recommend is  
pretty meaningless.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA