Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!well!lamc!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What's coming? Summary: I'm convinced that PCs breed ignorance and stupidity Keywords: appropriate use Message-ID: <388@wet.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 10:20:20 GMT References: <65100001@tippy> <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <6528@rpi.edu> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 17 In article <6528@rpi.edu> weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty) writes: > 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.... "All Craftsman(R) tools double as hammers." 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?) "Give a kid a hammer and he'll find something that needs fixing." -=EPS=- #import "disclaimer/std"