39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu (Peter Marinac;;;4159743128;KL75) (05/03/91)
> My guess is that you will be gently forced into buying a CD-ROM. > >20MB floppies should be hitting the market anytime now. Users of >*all* brands of computers are going to jump on these, thus driving the >prices down in a relatively short period of time. > >-Mike Actually, if not too much is changing in the next system (the April 1991 "Communications of the ACM" has an article on NeXTStep in relation to the issue's focus on multimedia in which one of the NeXT employees who authored the article states that version 2.2, supporting hardware JPEG, vs software JPEG now, will be available in the fourth quarter of '91)... where was I...Yeah, if not much is changing, maybe the upgrade will be available as a patch rather than a complete installation, in which case it would consume far fewer floppies. I don't know for sure, but I don't think that 20meg disks will work in current floppies.