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Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?

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From: Joel B Levin
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 15:56
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In article <3582@rodan.acs.syr.edu> rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes:
|In article <30337@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
|>Maurice Sharp writes:
|>< I have
|>< copied 60mb in significantly less time.  Like move the folder over and
|> ...
|>to copy 3000 files, even if they are small.  Was your 60 meg spread across
|> ...
|
|No, no -- look -- he used a lower-case "m" in "60mb"...
|
|Clearly he meant "60 MILLIbytes".  :-)

Still wrong!  Look at the lower case "b".

Clearly he meant "60 milliBITS".  :-) :-)

	/JBL
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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
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Date: 31 May 90 15:56:21 GMT
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