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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's coming?
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Date: 22 Jul 89 01:13:04 GMT
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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,

I would disagree. An important use of the OD is to make the NeXT a non-network
based data server. I, for example, have moved a database that contains the
complete NASDAQ and NYSEAMEX return and price series (daily, since 1962) onto
one an OD. Individual user access to large databases is a NeXT innovation.

Of course, I wouldn't want to have Mach swap to an OD (:-)) and, I agree, as a
backup device, an OD is just great.

/Ivo Welch	PHD_IVO@GSBACD.UCHICAGO.EDU