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From: knighton@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Robert Knighton)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: All this talk about Optical Disk
Keywords: NeXT, optical disk
Message-ID: <973@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 21 Oct 88 13:49:56 GMT
References: <895@surya.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: knighton@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Robert Knighton)
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Organization: SUNY College @ Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <895@surya.megatest.UUCP> asrirama@megatest.UUCP (Anantha Srirama) writes:
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>
>For all those people who find it impossible to coupe up with the advanced
>technology, NeXT is still providing the soon to be obsolete magnetic media.
>
>	-Anantha-

It isn't obsolete until optical is FASTER.  At worst case of ~100ms seek 
time the optical disk has a LONG way to go.

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