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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT Optical Drive/Magneto-Optics
Message-ID: <4697@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 17:28:30 GMT
References: <4XJgQly00Uw9049VhI@andrew.cmu.edu> <4489@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <4489@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>What benefit to the laser drive, then?

  Removable Capacity!!  Do you know of any cheap drives that offer a
protable 256 MegaBytes, in a very reliable format.  This is a machine for
University Lab enviroments.  Wouldn't it be nice as a student to be able
to bring up your very own Unix enviroment regardless of what machine you
were on. :-)

>Also, consider the following problem:  MicroSoft (strictly

  MicroSoft has already stated that they will not be developing any SW for
the next Machine.  Given the popularity of OS/2, I think this might be a bad
idea.  But who am I, just someone who hates MS. :-)
-- 
David M. O'Rourke                                  dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu

"If it doesn't do Windows, then it's not a computer!!!"
Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!