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From: pattis@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of writes on an optifloppy
Summary: the numbe of write before breakdown: 1 to 10 million
Message-ID: <6411@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 88 18:32:15 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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> I posed your question to one of the Sony marketing types at Unix Expo in
> NYC last week: he said he'd been asked before, and one of the engineers
> thought about it a bit, filled up a couple of envelope-backs, and
> estimated the number of writes before breakdown at 1 to 10 million.
> 
> Probably enough, if the estimate is correct.
> 
> =Ned=

I sure hope that it breaks down closer to the 10 millionth write than to the
first write.