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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drives
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.114738.13261@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 25 Jun 91 11:47:38 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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One idea I haven't seen expressed is ideal for CD-ROM.  There are
certain apps that are loaded and run constantly on most systems.  I am
told the longer you own a NeXT the worse it gets until you need more and
more RAM to support everything, but that is another problem.  Anyhow,
the time to load versus the time to run is close to zero.  Assuming the
OS were distributed on CD-ROM, why not save some HD space and load these
apps from CD-ROM each time?
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA        rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
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