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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: CDROM Delay Update
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.194520.20426@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug19.005550.824@ee.gatech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:45:20 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- John B. Lockhart writes
- > Does NeXT even realize that getting its 3.0 release out
- > on time means absolutely nothing to those people who
- > don't have the CDROM drives they ordered to read the
- > release with? Am I going to get the release *before*
- > the drive? *Should* I sell my NeXT in favor of a market
- > where I can go buy off-the-shelf things down the street
- > for cheaper than mail-order NeXT equipment??
- >
- Delays on shipping the DC-ROM drives are unfortunate; i
- understand they are due to much higher than expected
- response to the bundle offer.
- However, look at it from the other side: If you had a
- DOS/Windows system, you could have bought whatever you
- wanted right off the shelf and then waited forever for a
- system upgrade (how long between Windows 3.0 and 3.1,
- compared to how long between NS 2.0 and 3.0?).
- And then, of course, you'd have received Windows 3.1
- instead of NS3.0 :-(
-
- I too am waiting for my CD-ROM drive, BTW.
-
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-