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From: nessus@gaffa.mit.edu (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Re: UNIX optical drives?
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Date: 17 Nov 88 23:44:39 GMT
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In article <2384@datapg.MN.ORG> sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) writes:

> I see there are now some WORM drives for less than $5,000.  Is there
> yet a commercially-released UNIX with a high-capacity driver and
> filesystem?  I'm interested in the high capacity, so the exact
> technology does not matter.

> Oh, hey, we don't need 50 messages about NeXT.

Perhaps it does make sense to ask the question, however, why buy a
WORM when cheap read/write optical disks are already here and will
soon be widely available?  NeXT will be selling their Canon optical
drives for something like $1500.  Maxtor is supposed to start shipping
its 5.25-inch r/w optical drives shortly.  The figures I heard on
those, a little while back, were something like 30 mSec seek, 700
MBytes, $2500 to OEM's.

If you really have your mind set on a WORM, some people at MIT
implemented a WORM filesystem for Unix.  simsong@athena.mit.edu may
know more details.

|>oug /\lan
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