"stacker" as part of NS486

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2 total messages Started by James Clifton Elam Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:39

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Author: James Clifton Elam
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:39

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In my never-ending quest for total bankruptcy through leading edge computer  
purchases (:-) I've come upon NS486 and the portable world.

Okay, so performance on the display won't be awesome (if the WINMARK numbers of  
PC Rag-azine are to be believed), and the screen in kinda small. Don't even  
talk about those silly little clip-on mice/built in trackballs - I get hand  
cramps even thinking about it.

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?

Stacker doubles their disk size.

Attention NeXT: put optional compression in the operating system somewhere.  
That way I could squeeze a development machine on a 120M (240 w/ compression)  
hard-disk.  Also consider allowing a "portable" installation of the bare bones  
development box. (No shakespeare,  no uucp, no netinfo....)

--
James "Cliff" Elam   | jcelam%witsend@glv.com - NeXT mail!
(919) 460-3240 (v,w) | NeXTStep/Intel + IB + DBKit @ $200 !   
(919) 460-3295 (fax) | All I want to do is go home now, please.

Re: "stacker" as part of NS486

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Author: 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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