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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <1390@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:52:01 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ
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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
]in article <360@elan.UUCP>, jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) says:
]
]One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
]removable erasable optical disk? AND, why the hell have a typical SCSI
           ^^^^^^^^
]tape drive for archival purposes, when you have a 256MB removable
]optical disk? I suspect that the optical drive is there as a

And if you accidently type "rm -r *" or something equivalent? 
If its erasable, it needs a backup.

And, as was mentioned before, how about software distribution? The
removable disk media costs ~$50.00!

Finally, does anyone know which "magneto-optical" technology is
being used on the drive and how it works?
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