Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!brunix!cs.brown.edu!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: DAT's (was: NeXT Religion) Message-ID: <51555@brunix.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 90 23:22:32 GMT References: <20467@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <448@news.nd.edu> <2444@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <5612@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept. Lines: 9 I don't think DAT's are too good a choice, they are no random access device. The convenient thing about ODs is that you need not copy the data to a disk firs when you want to access it once in a while. -- Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------