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Article #33202Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
From: Sam Cramer
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 23:44
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 23:44
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The NeXT optical disk drive boasts an average seek time of 96ms - an enormous number compared to the sub-20ms times typical on decent Winchesters. Unless they have done something very clever with the controller and/or file system, you are going to have plenty of time for coffee breaks if your application touches the disk. The lack of a floppy presents some problems for software vendors - optical disk cartridges evidently cost around $50. Not what you'd call a cheap distribution medium. -- Sam Cramer sun!cramer cramer@sun.com
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