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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical drive update  -- What a bummer!
Message-ID: <1375@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 90 16:07:46 GMT
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brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandonius) writes:

>You know, even the terminolgy for eraseable CD's isn't nice.
>Let's see, magneto-optical disks.  Hmmm... MOD's?  Sound good?
>Can we establish a common term here, whilst bypassing a hundred and
>fifty institutes, associations, and societies?

Well Write Once Read Many are called WORM drives, so let's call
read-writeable many times type drives...

WARM drives. Write And Read Many


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