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From: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
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Subject: Re: Comments on NeXT.
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Date: 30 Sep 88 18:33:00 GMT
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     I was concerned before about what people meant by the NeXT's disk being
"erasable". To me, I assumed this to be a WORM drive, since you can erase
a WORM drive by setting all 0s to 1s.  The correct way to refere to the
drive on the NeXT is "re-writable".  You can write it many times.  I am
99.99% sure that it is a 297 Meg. removable Magno/Optical drive that can
be re-written and was developed by Sony.  I wonder how fast it will be
though?  I heard that optical drives are generally slow.  Any comments on
if this is true or not?  I am refering to magnetic/optical drives, not CD
ROM or WORM drives.

					--Rob.

Robert Silvers.                                                 
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