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Subject: Re: What's coming?
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Date: 11 Aug 89 00:28:00 GMT
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>>            As a potential developer, the costs of distribution and
>>upgrades to software are currently prohibitive.  Imagine shipping a
>>256 megabyte disk with 2 meg of data on it....

> I have very little sympathy.  Did it ever occur to you that there
> are more ways of getting software into (or out of) a cube than
> the floptical drive?  (Do you have access to a NeXT?  How many of
> your potential customers are going to have a NeXT workstation and
> \nothing/ else?  Do you even know what a "workstation" is?)

A lot.  Just becuase the machine can be a good(great) workstation does not
limit it to that.  In the professional world, you make the most out of what
is on the market.  Everyone should know that.  At my company, we are planning
on using the NeXT cube to run our kernal.  It has the power we need, and we
like programming it, so we picked it.  That means it is not hooked up to
any mainframe, and it is not hooked up to a tape drive.  We are forced
to make users buy a high speed modem for upgrades and maintenance on the 
program.  This is acceptable to us, but it may not be for many other developers.

Michael Rutman
Softmed