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Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)

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From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 00:36
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In article <363@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
>Jobs didn't say anything about access times or transfer rates though.
>The Wall Street Journal today said it is a magneto-optical disk, so
>perhaps it is a hybrid of both technologies on a single medium.

Someone here got a copy of BYTE Magazine's preview from BIX.  It says that
the average seek time is 96 ms.  They also describe the technology in some
detail.  

		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 00:36:33 GMT
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