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From: zdenko@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Zdenko Tomasic)
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Subject: Re: What's coming?
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Date: 18 Jun 89 19:24:13 GMT
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In article <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I think the writer means a standard, either 5 1/4 or 3 inch FLOPPY
>drive! The optical disk is basically for backup and long-term
>storage - it is too slow for any other use. 660 meg hard drives are nice,
>but, like optical disks, a bit too expensive for distribution media!
>
>NeXt should redesign the optical drive to take tiny weeny small disks
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>that cost only $5, like the cheap small CD's that have come out,
>or break down and install a real floppy for distribution purposes.
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>
>Doug McDonald


No! NeXT should drive the price of floptical down, not push us back to
Messy-DOS world. Raise the common denominator, not lower it!
Please, get out of that DOS mentality, the world needs some progress
after all.
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