spohrer-james@yale.UUCP (10/20/88)
From: James Spohrer <spohrer-james> Does the NeXT machine have an 800K or 1.5M floppy system? It seems that in an educational market you want to be able to share programs, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost $50. The joy of the under $1.00 diskettes is that you can freely give them away, whereas the $50 CD diskettes would be too expensive. - Jim Spohrer spohrer@yale.edu -------
davef@Jessica.stanford.edu (David Finkelstein) (10/21/88)
In article <40819@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spohrer-james@yale.UUCP writes: >From: James Spohrer <spohrer-james> > >Does the NeXT machine have an 800K or 1.5M floppy system? >It seems that in an educational market you want to be able >to share programs, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost >$50. The joy of the under $1.00 diskettes is that you >can freely give them away, whereas the $50 CD diskettes >would be too expensive. > >- Jim Spohrer >spohrer@yale.edu >------- The NeXT machine does not have any sort of floppy drive, and I doubt it ever will. You're right that you want to be able to share programs, files, data, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost $50. How about your campus Ethernet? Why cart programs around on a floppy when you can access them with NFS from across the campus? Of course if you don't have a campus Ethernet you're out of luck. But I think that's one of the reasons Jobs included built-in Ethernet and TCP/IP support. I just hope you don't have to open a terminal window and type someting like "mount -t nfs serv:/usr/src /usr/src"; I hope Jobs made the user interface better than that. ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Finkelstein |davef@jessica.stanford.edu Academic Information Resources |davef%jessica@stanford.bitnet Stanford University | Just say "please."