🚀 go-pugleaf

John B. Lockhart writes
> Does NeXT even realize that getting its 3.0 release out
> on time means absolutely nothing to those people who
> don't have the CDROM drives they ordered to read the
> release with?  Am I going to get the release *before* 
> the drive?  *Should* I sell my NeXT in favor of a market
> where I can go buy off-the-shelf things down the street
> for cheaper than mail-order NeXT equipment??    
> 
Delays on shipping the DC-ROM drives are unfortunate; i  
understand they are due to much higher than expected  
response to the bundle offer.
However, look at it from the other side:  If you had a  
DOS/Windows system, you could have bought whatever you  
wanted right off the shelf and then waited forever for a  
system upgrade (how long between Windows 3.0 and 3.1,  
compared to how long between NS 2.0 and 3.0?).
And then, of course, you'd have received Windows 3.1  
instead of NS3.0 :-(

I too am waiting for my CD-ROM drive, BTW.

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Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)