Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Student's view of NeXT marketing pl Summary: But we *want* our students to be able to make bootable systems Message-ID: <416@wet.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 09:32:55 GMT References: <4866@tank.uchicago.edu> <116900006@p.cs.uiuc.edu>Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 16 In article J Greely writes: > > Under 0.9, possession of a bootable OD >is equivalent to root access on any NeXT you can physically reach. >This is fixed in 1.0 ("real soon now"). Our campus of "Enormous State University" has a required Operating Systems class for most Computer Science majors that includes making bootable systems as a graded project. This isn't a hypothetical--this is on the level. The class currently uses Convergent Technologies Miniframes, which are no longer supported by their manufacturer. What's an affordable replacement that also uses 68000-series CPUs? I take it NeXT will no longer be a qualified bid. -=EPS=-