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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
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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=-