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From: ekwok@cadev4.intel.com (Edward C. Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
Message-ID: <3177@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 11 Nov 88 07:13:20 GMT
References: <1147@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <1218@atari.UUCP>
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In article <1218@atari.UUCP> danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott) writes:
>in article <1147@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, olsen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Jim Olsen) says:
>
>> Imagine the value to those law students of having, for modest cost,
>> the entire United States Code, Code of Federal Regulations, or United
>> States Reports (Supreme Court decisions) in their shirt pockets!
>
>I would have to agree.  I usually take what a lawyer tells me with a
>grain of salt, but perhaps I would have more faith if I knew he had access to
>all cases that set president for what I am dealing with.

Not very likely, each volume of the United States Report contains, on the
average 1500 pages, and each page contains roughly 8000 characters. That
makes about 12 Mbytes per volume. There are more than 470 volumes, the 
last time I look. 







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