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Re: Book on NeXTSTEP Programming

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From: Glenn Reid
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:12
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Michael B. Johnson writes

> It's also probably infinitely easier (and cheaper) to get DOS disks
> duplicated than NeXT format ones.  When you want to get a few thousand
> books out, I'm sure that was a mitigating factor.

Not really.  As long as you stick to the 1.44 floppies, the same machines
(and companies) that duplicate DOS floppies can duplicate NeXT floppies
too.  The disk copier doesn't care about the format, as long as the low-
level format is the same (which it is).  We do this all the time.

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Subject: Re: Book on NeXTSTEP Programming
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