lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) (10/24/88)
In article <1517@maccs.McMaster.CA>, dan@maccs (Dan Trottier) writes: > Plus it will add $50 dollars to the price of buying >software. Why? It seems that most software currently ships on QIC tapes. These go for around $50 (Canadian). The floptical costs C$65 according to everything I've read. Fifteen bucks isn't going to make a damn bit of difference in end user price. --
mike@ists.yorku.ca (Mike Clarkson) (10/25/88)
In article <10508@ncc.Nexus.CA>, lyndon@nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: | In article <1517@maccs.McMaster.CA|, dan@maccs (Dan Trottier) writes: | | Plus it will add $50 dollars to the price of buying | |software. | | Why? It seems that most software currently ships on QIC tapes. These | go for around $50 (Canadian). The floptical costs C$65 according to | everything I've read. Fifteen bucks isn't going to make a damn bit | of difference in end user price. Not to mention having another spare 250 Megs of disk to use after you're finshed with the 5 Meg or whatever software distribution. Mike Clarkson mike@ists.UUCP Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science mike@ists.yorku.ca York University, North York, Ontario, uunet!mnetor!yunexus!ists!mike CANADA M3J 1P3 +1 (416) 736-5611
raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eric A. Raymond) (10/26/88)
Give me a break. Seems like the machine is getting a bad rap for following a practice that has been commonplace in the industry. NeXT's are not Macs (or PC's for that matter). They are built for a clustered environment and as such should be treated as such (otherwise, what use is the ethernet). You don't complain that your SUN doesn't have as floppy drive so don't complain about the NeXT. Never heard of anyone having to buy a tape unit before. Look at it this way, you only need one drive per cluster. By the way, move this to comp.next. Name: Eric A. Raymond ARPA: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov SLOW: NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035 Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)