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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Optical Disk price change
Message-ID: <5776@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 05:10:57 GMT
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In <9213@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:

>In article <5774@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>>>[I wrote:]
>>>It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that this technology is on the
>>>way out.

>>Nothing could be father from the truth.
>> [stuff about new and ISO standard OD's]

>How does your first statement apply to the latter?

>NeXT's optical disc is unique to NeXT.  Nobody else has adopted it.
>That technology -- the OD technology in use on the NeXT -- is on its
>way out.  The future of optical media will be with technology that is
>standard and in use on multiple platforms.

Unique?  What is unique?  The format it uses or the magneto-optical
business?  When you say 'technology' do you mean the format that the
OD drive rights in, which is not technology, but an application, or
the magneto-optical business which is and which is NOT on the way out,
but is just getting up to steam.  That's what I contend with.  As far
as wether the Canon drive for the NeXT is on it's way out, I reserve
opinion on that.

-k