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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with CRT storage?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 02:41:53 GMT
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In article <JSP.90Aug3123600@milton.u.washington.edu> jsp@milton.u.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero) writes:
>Is there some fundamental reason electron-beam
>mass storage can't compete with optical and
>magnetic mass storage?  Has any work been done
>on this since the 50s?

CRT's produce a fair amount of radiation.  I'd just as soon not add to the
amount of zapping I get.
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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com