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Subject: Re: New Half gigabyte ROM...CD vs LASER
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<"...we're just a habit, like sacharrine..." P. Simon>

To !tilt!chenr 's lament about the CD being a ROM and thus having marginal
utility I can only react with amazement...When was the last time you 
corrected a typo in a book or magazine?  Did the existence of that typo
ruin the book?  Possibly, but not likely. 

Think of the utility of having the entire contents of the The Encyclopedia 
Brittanica on line?  or all the cookbooks you ever wanted?
or professional references (law libraries?)?

I sincerely doubt that the possibilities have escaped Big Blue...and I sure
don't expect to see anything as hacked up as OS source or object (ANYBODY'S) 
on a ROM.  (With, naturally, the exception of the stuff which makes all this
primitve hardware perform in a civilized manner...my terminal, f'rinstance.)