wells@zach.fit.edu (James M. Wells) (06/28/90)
Has anyone heard rumors of a new NeXT product: a diskless workstation? James M. Wells, Florida Institute of Technology 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901. +1 407 768 8000 x7285 wells@zach.fit.edu
edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan) (06/30/90)
James M. Wells writes: > Has anyone heard rumors of a new NeXT product: a diskless workstation? Is this really a "rumor"? I was under the impression that NeXT was already delivering a version of the Cube w/out either hard-disk or floptical. I don't recall if this version had the 40MB disk or not. It certainly wouldn't boot off it anyway. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Edward McClanahan Hewlett Packard Company Mail Stop 47UP -or- edwardm%hpda@hplabs.hp.com 19447 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: (408)447-5651
manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (07/01/90)
We have 37 diskless NeXTs waiting to be installed. (To be precise, each has a 40MB accelerator disk, used primarily for local paging. The original version was delivered sans disk, but was found to create too much network paging load. NeXT added the accelerator, and retrofitted all existing machines at no cost. Now *that's* commitment to the customer!) It's more than a rumour. There are currently 4 major configurations: Network user (8MB, accelerator) Basic (8MB, accelerator, OD) Developer (8MB, 330MB hard disk, OD) Network server (16MB, 660MB hard disk, OD) -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394
jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) (07/02/90)
The "diskless" NeXT does exist, and it does have a 40MB accelerator hard drive which it uses for swap space. (I'm working on one right now, and it works quite well.) Jim