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From: rcpieter@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr)
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Subject: Re: high density discs.
Keywords: discs
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Date: 4 Jun 91 14:15:19 GMT
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yorkr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Richard York) writes:

>    The arc over the last few years has become much more memory hungry due to
>much bigger and better software. Bigger floppies now seem a good way to go.
>Does anyone else out there in Acorn land think the same?

It would be better, at this moment in time, to skip the 2Mb floppies
and go straight for the 4Mb ones.  (This would make backing up 150Mb
onto floppies a tiny bit bearable again.)

The PC world is holding its breath while waiting for IBM to announce
a machine using these drives (which of course can also read/write the
others).

Thought for today: Sure, the software is obviously getting bigger...

Tiggr