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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!glv!usenet
- From: jcelam@confused (James Clifton Elam)
- Subject: "stacker" as part of NS486
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.203942.1004@glv.uucp>
- Keywords: You wanna use a portable? Read on....
- Sender: usenet@glv.uucp
- Nntp-Posting-Host: witsend
- Reply-To: jcelam%confused@glv.com
- Organization: Encompass
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:39:42 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In my never-ending quest for total bankruptcy through leading edge computer
- purchases (:-) I've come upon NS486 and the portable world.
-
- Okay, so performance on the display won't be awesome (if the WINMARK numbers of
- PC Rag-azine are to be believed), and the screen in kinda small. Don't even
- talk about those silly little clip-on mice/built in trackballs - I get hand
- cramps even thinking about it.
-
- Disk space.
-
- Try to buy a portable with more than about 120M. (486's are pretty afordable,
- surprisingly enough.)
-
- How do those poor benighted DOS weenies live with this situation when they want
- a development machine to take on the road?
-
- Stacker doubles their disk size.
-
- Attention NeXT: put optional compression in the operating system somewhere.
- That way I could squeeze a development machine on a 120M (240 w/ compression)
- hard-disk. Also consider allowing a "portable" installation of the bare bones
- development box. (No shakespeare, no uucp, no netinfo....)
-
- --
- James "Cliff" Elam | jcelam%witsend@glv.com - NeXT mail!
- (919) 460-3240 (v,w) | NeXTStep/Intel + IB + DBKit @ $200 !
- (919) 460-3295 (fax) | All I want to do is go home now, please.
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