Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!iesd!fischer
From: fischer@iesd.uucp (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <996@iesd.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 88 19:57:24 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <15488@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6929@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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In article <6929@ut-emx.UUCP> osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
>The NeXT's (I'm already getting tired of typing that thing!) optical disk
>has been compared to audio CD's, which are hallmarked by superb reliability
>and durability. "Pour sludge on it, rinse it off, stick it back in the drive,
>and you still get studio-master-quality sound."

Which is of course nothing but hype. CD's are as fragile as vinyl LP's.
Bit errors simply sound *different* than scracthes in vinyl, not
*better*.

>Does anybody have information
>on the reliability of the NeXT's storage medium? Are these things going to
>do the same thing to hard drives that audio CD's did to vinyl LP's? We live
>in exciting times, don't we?...... (-8

Oh, no. It's enough to have to put up with this mess they call digital
audio. Hopefully, computer technology will get *better*, not worse.
-- 
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer
We must remove the TV-induced stupor that lies like a fog
across the land.		- T. H. Nelson