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From: thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Hameenaho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Message-ID: <313@uplog.se>
Date: 17 Oct 88 07:51:23 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: thomas@uplog.UUCP (Thomas Hameenaho)
Organization: TeleLOGIC Uppsala AB
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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?

Well, if the optical disk is your primary mass storage device, how do you
get anything new onto it if you have to take it out and put another disk in?
The old macintosh way? ("Please insert disk foo bar") :-).

I sure would like to have at least a streamer to do backups, software
distribution and file exchange with other systems. I sure hope it will be
compatible with most other streamers (not the hp way).
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