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From: bakken@arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Where's the REVOLUTION
Summary: CD ROM is *slow*
Message-ID: <11516@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 89 22:48:28 GMT
References: <89147.153425MDM107@PSUVM> <10831@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: bakken@arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <10831@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> carlos@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Carlos Salinas) writes:
>While we're at it, why not have an optical drive which reads not only 
>optical disks but also CD roms and ordinary CDs (why not?). CD roms
>should be faster than optical and would be ideal for large applications
>and databases.  

The last time I checked (about 4 months ago), CD ROM drives had
400-500 millisecond access time.  That's *SLOW*!!!  It would be nice 
to be able to hook one on a NeXT, though, to get at some large databases.
-- 
Dave Bakken
bakken@arizona.edu
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