HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: greg@brooks.async.vt.edu (Greg Foliente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Mathematica Book / CD-ROM
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:08:29 GMT
Reply-To: greg@brooks.async.vt.edu OR pol2@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu

In article <1992Oct8.153920.12052@lsa.umich.edu> Hal.Varian@umich.edu  
writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.151054.28897@uni-paderborn.de>  
huhr@uni-paderborn.de  
> (Holger Uhr) writes:
   <stuff deleted> 
> > - And at last: What other good books about Mathematica do you know?
> 
> Well I'm editing a book entitled "Economic and Financial Modeling with  
> Mathematica", to be published by Springer-Verlag/TELOS in a couple of 
> months.  ISBN number is 0-387-97882-8.  I think it is pretty good.
> --
> Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian

If you don't already have, get
	"Programming in Mathematica" by Roman E. Maeder (2nd ed, 1991)
	Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 
	ISBN No. 0-201-54877-1 -- (HB) Hardbound
	ISBN No. 0-201-54878-X -- (PB) Paperbound

--
.................................................................
Greg Foliente                   NeXTmail: greg@brooks.async.vt.edu 
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA                 pol2@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
.................................................................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken)
Subject: Re: Man : Another 3.0 bug?
Reply-To: john@nextdoor.com
Organization: Nextdoor Software, San Jose, CA, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:44:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.042508.29269@cs.sfu.ca> patrice@cs.sfu.ca (Patrice  
Belleville) writes:
> 
> 	"Reformatting page.  Wait...can't open file man8/cron.8
> 	 done"
> 
> and then creates an empty file  crontab.5 (owned by myself) in /usr/man/cat5.


You're not alone - exactly the same thing happens here.

-- 
 John McCracken                   White Computers
 john@nextdoor.com                  Can't Jump
 NeXTMail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong)
Subject: NetInfo Problem
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:28:03 GMT

Greeting,

I'm trying to set up a netserver under NS2.0. After I followed the
manual to set up the Local Configuration, the cube reboot as the
manual said. But it stop and say:

Connot find parent NetInfo server, still looking..........
Press 'C' to continue boot without parent server.

What is happening? I was trying to set up a master server I thought!
Of course there is no parent NetInfo server!!

Any help would be apprepicate.
Andy
From: ricardo@chuy (Ricardo Parada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Call for Volunteers *warning*
Date: 10 Oct 92 23:50:01 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software

In article <1b4oboINN6ko@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>  
jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu writes:
> In article <1992Oct9.014207.8837@cube.handheld.com>  
jmd@cube.handheld.com  
> (Jim De Arras) writes:
>                           
> > 
> > I just got my test, and did the first half.  It gives you a short  
break  
> in the  
> > middle.  My countdown clock never started, and the app is now frozen.   
> > Considerable mental effort and 1/2 hour plus have been wasted.
> > 
> > Your mileage may vary.  But you've been forewarned.
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> 
> Just finished it...worked fine for me.
> --

I was doing part 2 and had to stop for a while and when I wanted to come  
back to it to finish it the app had dissappeared.  I wasted about 40 min.

--
+ Ricardo J. Parada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: websters and documentation on server
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:48:04 GMT

Mark H  Needleman writes
> How do I set things up so a whole bunch of next machines can all  
share
> one copy of the dictionary and the documentation across the local net  
by  
> accessing the copy on a server machine
> 
> thanks
> 
> Mark  Needleman
> University of California

Make a directory /LocalLibrary on your server.
Move /NextLibrary/References to /LocalLibrary
Move /NextLibrary/ManPages to /LocalLibrary
remove existing link from /usr/man to /NextLibrary/ManPages
Create links:
ln -s /LocalLibrary/References /NextLibrary/References
ln -s /LocalLibrary/ManPages /usr/man

Caution:  This is from memory. I may have some of the original  
directories incorrect.  Not responsible for deleted dictionaries.
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Recovering ROM monitor password
Date: 9 Oct 1992 06:37:06 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <5361@rosie.NeXT.COM> Bob_Beckwith@NeXT.COM (Bob Beckwith) writes:
>Bob_Beckwith@NeXT.COM
>Digital Hardware Engineering
 ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
>NeXT Computer, Inc.
>900 Chesapeake Drive
>Redwood City, CA 94063 USA


Since we've got you on the line, Bob, what's a day of work in your life like?
I mean, when you look around the lab, what kinds of equipment do you see?  It's
always interesting for us in netland to be able to sense and feel what it must
be like over there in Redwood City.  Got any hardware you'd like to talk about
?-) :-)
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
From: wfp@jupiter.claremont.edu (Frank Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM doesn't work
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:43:00 GMT
Reply-To: wprice@pomona.claremont.edu
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

In article <cue-071092235741@17.1.7.157> cue@apple.com (Eddy Cue) writes:
> Can I hook up an Apple CD-ROM (CD 150) to a NeXT? Is all existing software
> compatible with the Apple CD-ROM?
> 

I'm not speaking with authority here, and I really wish someone would, but I  
have tried using an Apple CD 150  with NeXTSTEP 3.0, and had lots of problems.   
There are no problems with normal disks like the NeXTSTEP 3.0 disk.  But  
CDPlayer.app doesn't work at all which makes me believe NeXT didn't really  
follow the standards for that since playing audio CDs on the CD 150 works fine  
on my Mac.

-- Frank
__________________________________________________________________________
Frank Price               | wprice@pomona.claremont.edu
                          | "Nothing crashes like a Macintosh."
NeXTMail appreciated      |      - Guy Kawasaki
From: ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: What causes the GUI's slowness under 3.0?
Keywords: 3.0
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:37:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BvuzAH.9s.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Oct9.032553.26343@eng.ufl.edu> pgriffin@uful07.phys.ufl.edu (Paul A. Griffin) writes:
>c. If it is a bug, is there a simple fix that an end user, or system
>administator can implement?  Does NeXT plan on releasing the bug fix
>before 3.1 arrives?

Yes, I think so.  Boot with more buffers.  This makes a HUGE
difference.  Before increasing the number of buffers, my NeXTstation
mono (25MHz) cralwed with 3.0.  Now it doesn't seem like it's slower
than 2.1 to me (subjective, might be because of the way I use it).
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu
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From: 72011.10@compuserve.com (Mitch Alland)
MMDF-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at gate.demon.co.uk
Subject: Lotus Improv for sale!
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:39:10 +0000

Having sold my Cube, I'm selling off the remaining peripherals and software. 
If you want Lotus Improv (icluding API Toolkit) please make me an offer and let
me have your address.  I'll ship c.o.d. by second day UPS.  I'll write to Lotus
to transfer the registration.

--Mitch
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: _nextstep_ television show!
Date: 8 Oct 1992 15:58:48 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


True, no trademark problems.  But maybe NeXT should advertise during this
show ...

mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jon@afs.com
Subject: Excellent service from NeXT (heretic!)
Distribution: USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:06:01 GMT


I know everyone's complaining about their late CD-Rom's, and how they can't u 
 
se that new, spiffy keyboard (boo-hoo), but I have nothing bad to say about NeXT (yet?)

I have an old cube (SN 0000278), upgraded to 040, which I bought used a couple of months ago. It has an OD, which seems to be going bad, perhaps because it needs cleaning. I called NeXT service the other day, and they spent half an hour on the phone with me, even though they knew I was using an old, unwarranted, second-hand cube. Eventually, the super-cool tech (Joanne, I believe was her name--Thanks!) got me the name of someone who might be able to help out. (He didn't but that's not NeXT's fault. He's no



t related to them)

And, no, I'm not going to whine about my "soon-to-be obsolete" cube. It's fast enough for now. It has an OD, and I don't need to upgrade to a turbo. I certainly don't have the money to. I know someone who is a developer of Apple IIGS software. Where's the future in that? But he doesn't complain about Apple. Hell, he applied for a job.

Computers become obsolete.
Companies stop supporting old machines.
It happens.
Learn to deal with it or get some therapy.

--
Jonathan Hendry  programmer-in-exile Anderson Financial Systems
reply-to:hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu <no nextmail, it's an IBM)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.misc:20914 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:5875 comp.sys.next.hardware:2086
From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Thanks all for answering my question about Maxtor SCSI ID
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:23:13 GMT
Reply-To: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: BSO/LT, Baarn, The Netherlands

I got so many reactions to this question that I have to skip personal thanks.
The answer was: The jumpers for these maxtors are on the circuit board of the
drive (hence, the drive has to be removed from the cube, now let's try to find
out how to do this, must be simple) and cannot be seen when you just open the
Cube. The very old Cubes had SCSI ID 0, slightly newer ones (like mine) have
SCSI ID 1.

Thanks again all,


-- 
wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my employer.
(+31) 2154 84414/(+31) 35 833539  || Support the League for Programming Freedom!
    "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
    (From the Talmud(?), rephrased in) Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
From: todd@crayola (Todd Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: trackball for next
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:04:50 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Does anyone know if there is currently a trackball available for the NeXT?

Thanks in advance.

-- tk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: On SW for NRW
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:34:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.071813.6148@pages.com> bwebster@pages.com writes:

[ ]
>
>It took Peter Linss (one of our engineers) a day and a fraction to get the  
>current Pages build up and running under NS-486.  The day was because we were  
>still developing under NS 3.0 PR2, and NeXT cleverly made some changes (between  
>PR2 and 3.0 gold!) as to how ProjectBuilder project trees and makefiles have to  
>be set up. It took a while to track down just what the problem was, then to  
>change over our entire project tree (which has some 20-odd subprojects in it).  
>The fraction was to track down the only incompatibility (3DKit wasn't yet  
>ported over to NS-486), put conditional comments around the code using 3DKit  
>methods, and recompile. Voila!

Interesting. Given this situation, will NeXT (the real ones!) users of say
Pages also be licensed to run it on their 486's (for a small fee)?

[ ]

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
Subject: Re: 2.2 Still an Option?
Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 06:44:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.210429.2395@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu  
(Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
> With all this talk of how slow 3.0 is, I am getting very concerned
> about my planned purchase of a NSTC. I had an 030 cube running 1.0,
> and upgraded to an 040 running 2.1 so I am deathly scared of winding
> up with a SLOW interface again. Hell, everyone here wants me to get
> a Sun IPX and a slow interface would start an endless stream of 
> "wow, my IPX is much faster" comments.

But the IPX has a much *slower* interface thann a NSTC. Even the SS-10
takes several seconds to refresh the screen when there are some five or six
windows on it. This is quite usual for X servers, BTW.

[stuff deleted]

> I am also concerned about disk throughput. One poster suggested the NeXT
> would only support something like 400kB/sec on the SCSI. WHAT?!
> IS THIS TRUE? Good thing they put a SCSI-2 connector back there so
> I can hook up and 10MB/sec disk only to have it trickle data...

YES, IT IS (almost) TRUE! And don't worry about it. I used to have an SS-1
for my own, and the disk transfer rate was also in the 500KB/sec rate. The SS-2
is not much faster (as is the IPX). Only the SS-10 does much better than that.
BTW. I hooked up a Maxtor-PO-12 to my '040/25, and it delivers around 850K/sec.
Yes, it IS slower than a Piss-Cee, but a UNIX-like OS context-switches all the
time between user- and kernel-mode while reading from disk. One cannot compare
UNIX-OS disk transfer speeds with speeds of Piss-Cees running Mess-DOG.
A Pissy won't let you do anything else while reading/writing a disk, while
a UNIX-box will. It's the functionality that counts.

> I want NeXTstep back on my desk, but I cannot afford to sink many
> thousands of dollars into a slow system.

3.0 is slower than 2.2. I'm sure 3.1 will be back to lightning :-).
X.0 versions are usually critical in terms of bugs and speeed.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: dls@tid.es (Douglas Ellis)
Subject: Concepts, etc.
Reply-To: dls@tid.es
Organization: Telefonica I+D
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:35:56 GMT

I'm trying to find postscript versions of the latest Concepts
manual and the rest of the developer's library.  Does anyone know
where I can get these from?

Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks.
-- 
Douglas Ellis goya!tid!dls@uunet.uu.net
Telefonica Investigacion Y Desarrollo
Madrid, Spain
From: brendan@june.cs.washington.edu (Brendan Mumey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: communications programs?
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:52:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: june.BRENDAN.92Oct9115217
Organization: /u2/brendan/.organization

I'm having some difficulty getting tip to work, so I would like to know
if there are any other free solutions to getting 38.4kps connections with
zmodem support?
From: ivo@NEXT.AGSM.UCLA.EDU (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Spreadsheet -- Storage of Data Requirements
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:51:44 GMT

Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software

I  thought the following  information would  be interesting to people (like
me), planning to  store and manipulate large  data bases  in ASCII,  WingZ,
Mesa, Improv, etc.

My very large (2.5 MB) ASCII data file (100%) can be compressed to  31% its
size.  It expands into about 280%  its size in WingZ  (compress-able to 51%
of the original file size); 900%-1,000% its size in Mesa  (compress-able [I
believe but am not sure here] to about 150%); 310% times  its size in 1-2-3
..wk1  as saved by  Improv (compress-able to  about 100%), and *110%* times
its size in Improv's .imp format  (compress-able  to 39%).  Clearly, Improv
is the   hands-down     winner.  (Unfortunately, Improv  does    not  offer
compressed-save  as an  option, nor does it  offer much  built-in data base
support).

Back to the drawing board for me. Is there a  better data-base package that
can shrink (not expand) vanilla (integer/float/double/char*) data storage,
and offer a spreadsheet like interface to data (to aid changes, browsing, etc),
both  command-line and NeXTStep tools to manipulate data, and  which  costs
<$200?  I   am *not*  interested   in multi-media apps or dtp-like report writing
facilities.

/ivo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: schmidmeier@evax12.eng.fsu.edu
Subject: Speed up 3.0 with memory ?
Organization: Famu/Fsu College of Engineering
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:13:27 EST


Hello new 3.0-users!

Now, that we all know, that 3.0 runs somewhat slower, especially
on the 8MB slabs, some people - like myself - will consider
getting more memory.
In my case (TurboStation, 8MB-RAM) I think an additional 8MB
schould solve the Problem,  I hope !

Or should I get an additional 16MB (2x8MB Simms) to add up to
a total of 24MB ???    Is this worthwile doing ???    Will it
considerably improve the Performance over the 16MB configuration?

For my applications I think I don't need to have 24MB RAM,
although it may well be good in the long run. Nevertheless I am
basically trying to save the money, if I don't really have
to by two new 8MB simms. 

Any advice is appreciated,

Rainer                   schmidmeier@evax.eng.fsu.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: vin@netcom.com (Vin Locke)
Subject: Re: MouseX under NS 3.0?
Keywords: Xwindows
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:51:58 GMT

In article <Bvv0Jn.1rs.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.042438.16102@netcom.com> vin@netcom.com (Vin Locke) writes:
>>Has anyone been successful in getting the version of MouseX that ran under
>>2.x to run under 3.0?  I can't tell if it just doesn't work or if something
>>got trashed when I did my upgrade. 
>
>Mine works.  You may have to "chmod a+rw /dev/vid0" to get it to work
>again; I think the upgrade changed it.
>-- 
>Doug DeJulio
>ddj+@cmu.edu

Thank you, and for everyone else who answered.  
Yes, changing the read/write permissions on /dev/vid0 did the trick.


-- 
					--vin

vin@netcom.com

"...you think YOU know fear -- I've seen them naked!"
				--L. Simpson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
Subject: Re: Recovering ROM monitor password
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:38:29 GMT

In <dillon.0ox7@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:

>    [...]	The best solution
>    is to take out the battery and short the battery terminals on the
>    motherboard together for a second or two to discharge the bypass
>    capacitors.

It needed about an hour when I did this to a slab. Half an hour was not enough.
The slab had the "dead as a stone" problem, probably caused by a user beating
on the power key.
-- 
This space is not blank!
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From: 72011.10@compuserve.com (Mitch Alland)
MMDF-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at gate.demon.co.uk
Subject: Allegro CL for sale!
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:38:57 +0000

Having sold my Cube, I'm selling off the remaining peripherals and software. 
If you want Allegro CL Release 3.1 please make me an offer and let me have your
address.  I'll ship c.o.d. by second day UPS.  I'll write to Franz Inc to
transfer the registration.

--Mitch

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: cl50@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Chengi  Lin)
Subject: SLIP
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Summary: SLIP 
Keywords: SLIP, Telecoonect, PPP-PS
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:08:57 GMT

Hi netters,

What are the differences of Marble Teleconnect, Louis Marmakos' SLIP 
implementation and Morning Star Technologies' PPP-SP?  What are the 
advantages and disadvantages of these products?  

Any comments are appreciated.  

Please reply to this account (cl50@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu)



---james



	[] Cheng-I Lin		[] SEAS, Columbia University
	[] Internet:	cl50@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu  (No NeXTmail, please)
From: beatty+@COSMOS.VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU (Derek Beatty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: mouseless use?
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:38:59 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: beatty@COSMOS.VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU

Is there any way to work without a mouse?  A few hours ago, my
left-hand mouse button went "boing" instead of "click" and now it's
stuck down.  Playing with 'dwrite NeXT1 MouseButtonsTied' doesn't seem
to produce anything usable---I can move the mouse pointer, but I can't
click on anything.  Without the mouse, you can do a few things
(navigating in Workspace with the keyboard is actually pleasant), but
I've discovered an amazing number of places where you just can't
switch first-responder status to something using only the keyboard.
Forget switching between applications.  Forget unhiding something.
Unless I just don't know how to type the cokebottle key, or I need to
do the equivalent of 'dwrite NeXT1 MouseSpringHasSprung'.

If NextStep were sufficiently robust, it could notice that a mouse
button was stuck down when I logged in, realize that something was
wrong, and let me continue with my mission-critical work.  I'm not
saying the system should stay up with an arbitrary stuck-at fault in
the hardware---just suggesting that things be a bit more tolerant of
failures of often-used mechanical parts (i.e., the mouse button switch). 

So at the moment I'm stuck in a VT100 world.  I have to applaud Scott
Hess for making Stuart keyboard-friendly---at least I can switch
between several windows.

By the way, I have to recommend that individuals get a service
contract after warranty---my station's 200MB Quantum died with 6 days
remaining on warranty, and the mouse stumbles three weeks later.  I
remember a coworker with a Delorean car.  He spent a month waiting for
a new radio because the old one's switch was bad.  Then the windshield
wipers broke, he had them fixed, he picked it up in the rain, he
turned on the wipers, they moved six inches, and they stopped.  The
mouse is the windshield wiper of a workstation, and NeXT seems to have
sold me a Delorean.  It's fast and sexy, but poor reliability and
parts availability can drive you nuts. 

Maybe NeXT is on the right track in trying to become a vaporware, er,
software company.  (This is an option Delorean didn't have.) If
NeXTSTEP 486 were shipping, a Pee Cee would be attractive.  If I had
some money a Quadra trade would be looking more and more attractive.
Althought I suppose the latest ADB-compatible NeXT hardware would also
be a step toward a configuration where replacing a mouse on a weekend
would be possible. 

Now I get to deal with our Computer Repair, which took a week to swap
out the hard drive last month.  That's enough time to drive to Redwood
City from Pittsburgh, pick up a new part, and drive back.  And obey
the speed limit.  (To be fair, NeXT shipped a new drive overnight; the
delay was local.) At least the mouse is easier to carry than the slab. 

 -- Derek
-- 
Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu   ABD   Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA
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