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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: All this talk about Optical Disk
Keywords: NeXT, optical disk
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Date: 15 Oct 88 05:17:39 GMT
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In article <895@surya.megatest.UUCP> asrirama@megatest.UUCP (Anantha Srirama) writes:
>I don't understand all this talk about 'does the machine use the optical
>disk for swapping' seems odd to me.  To me it is obvious, the optical
>disk is REPLACING the hard-disk/winchester and that says it all.
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Are erasable optical disks brand new stuff? When did this happen
and why aren't others using it?