Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Merits of DOS vs NeXT SCSI HD Formats ? Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 16:09:39 GMT References: <454@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: texnext.gac.edu In-reply-to: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 10 Mar 91 21:50:35 GMTLines: 36 In article <454@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: Also--I meant to respond to this in the previous posting--that is not "CH" on the disks, it is "HD". You're looking at it upside down. It stands for "High-Density", which is what they are to the PC and Mac world. Notice that the NeXT 2.88 disks have "ED" on them, I presume for "Extended Density" or something (they're running out of superlatives as they keep doubling the disk capacity :-) Oh, sure. If it's HD, it obviously stands for high-density! I must have been looking at it with the "door" on the bottom (or on the top - whichever way it's backwards). They shouldn't make the little HD look so much like someone's logo. After we have ED we'll probably go up to GD (gigantic density) and then on the MD (Mambo density). If we run out then, we can use MGD (Mambo Giant Density). That should last us through about 4M formatted disks (considering that every "quantum leap" up will be around .5 M, or something). [Note: I love the use of "Quantum Leap" to describe Huge Mambo Amazing Gigantic Steps For Mankind! When you think about it, though, you realize that a quantum leap is the smallest step up in energy levels at the atomic level (as an electron going from one energy level to the next). Quantum means a single unit which cannot be divided, leap refers to the fact that the particle doesn't occupy space between the starting level and the destination level (it "leaps"). So, a quantum leap in computers basically mean something like "the smallest possible step upward in capability". Oh, well.] Later (can you tell I got too much sleep last night?), -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."