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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drives
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Date: 24 Jun 91 16:32:23 GMT
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In article <1789@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
> >My comment is not that NeXT doesn't admit that CD-ROM drives exist, 
> >it's that they don't give you any reason at all to buy one.
> 
> Didn't this discussion start from the supposition that CD-ROM
> might become NeXT's sole distribution medium for future Software
> Releases?

I don't think so.  I think it started by suggesting that NeXT provide their  
distributions on CD-ROM (as an option, not as the sole distribution medium).  I  
may have lost track though.

We're also arguing a chicken-and-egg situation.  You're saying that NeXT should  
not use CD-ROM's because nobody has a CD-ROM drive.  I'm saying no one has a  
CD-ROM drive because there is absolutely nothing they can get for it.  I think  
that if people at least had an *option* of getting the system distribution on  
CD-ROM, then many more people would hook up a CD-ROM drive to their NeXT.

I'd like to stress *option* there.  I don't think that NeXT should force people  
to get a CD-ROM drive.  All I'd like to see is the different distribution media  
priced appropriately to the costs for NeXT.  Then people could decide which  
medium is the one that's best for them.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
