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From: yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 3d party optical disk drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.214428.30693@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 21:44:28 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.022312.18145@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar2.013333.20051@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:

>In article <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu> yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes:

>>     - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs?

>     Are you serious?  NeXT and Canon aren't even providing optical disks.
>Why would you want them to provide external optical drives?

NeXT should be responsible to slab users for the availability of external ODDs.
I think optical drives are still great medium as archives.

-- 
Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu]
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign