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Article #69Re: Info on flopticals?
From: Barry Shein
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:55
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:55
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I heard of these from someone who works on the biz, I believe there
was even some sort of standards committee for them.
I'm not sure if it was mag media + optical or CD/ROM + rewriteable
optical on the same disk, but part of the disk was definitely RO and
part RW.
It didn't impress me as that hot an idea, but I guess the motivation
was that you would have the software for some package on the disk and
be able to put your work in that package on the same disk.
I dunno, sounds overly "modular" to me, except perhaps as some sort of
turnkey delivery system (e.g. the software for a router with network
stats dribbled onto the writeable portion, or maybe a printer with
installed software and some fonts, and you can download more fonts
onto the writeable portion after installation, something like that,
actually, that's not a bad application come to think of it.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!Shiva.COM!world!bzs From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage Subject: Re: Info on flopticals? Message-ID: <BZS.92Aug30015502@ussr.std.com> Date: 30 Aug 92 06:55:02 GMT References: <1992Aug25.095728.20697@odin.diku.dk> Sender: usenet@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself) Organization: The World Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: dingbat@diku.dk's message of 25 Aug 92 09:57:28 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ussr.std.com