Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jpd00964 From: jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What's coming? Message-ID: <246300033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 00:28:00 GMT References: <3898@tank.uchicago.edu> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:tank.uchicago.edu:3898:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:246300033:000:1150 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jpd00964 Aug 10 19:28:00 1989 >> 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