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Re: "stacker" as part of NS486

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From: Richard Chycoski
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 22:19
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In article <1992Dec22.203942.1004@glv.uucp> jcelam@confused (James Clifton  
Elam) writes:
> In my never-ending quest for total bankruptcy through leading edge computer  
> purchases (:-) I've come upon NS486 and the portable world.
> 
..
> Disk space.
> 
> Try to buy a portable with more than about 120M. (486's are pretty afordable,  
> surprisingly enough.)
> 
> How do those poor benighted DOS weenies live with this situation when they  
want  
> a development machine to take on the road?

There are 240 MB drives available for portable machines, all you need to
do is become even *poorer*! (:-)

- Richard Chycoski
  Academic Computing Services
  Simon Fraser University
  richard@sfu.ca  (NeXT Mail OK.)
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From: richard@sfu.ca (Richard Chycoski)
Subject: Re: "stacker" as part of NS486
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