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From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
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Date: 16 Oct 88 06:30:17 GMT
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In article <9287@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
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>lighter.  Optics are apparently still very much more massive and could
>well remain so indefinitely.
...
It's not too difficult to imagine that the optics of a WORM drive read/write
head could be reduced to a slender optical fiber leading to a stationary laser.
Another approach might be to use holographic optics... :-)

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Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
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