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Article #1767Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
From: P. Allen Jensen
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 14:52
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 14:52
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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
> ............. I suspect that the optical drive is there as a
> replacement for the traditional floppy drive or streaming-tape
> cartridge; it's too slow to use as primary data store...............
I have seen access speed listed as somewhere between 30 and 90ms,
30ms being the peek and 90ms being an unknown measurement. My understanding
of magneto-optical disks is that they should be capable of up to 20ms
access time (see Feb. 1988 IEEE Spectrum, "Optical disks become erasable"
Can someone clear up all this confusion about the NeXT Optical Disk -
What are the actual specs. from NeXT ?
P. Allen Jensen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!gatech!gt-eedsp!jensen From: jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Summary: Why too slow ? Message-ID: <527@gt-eedsp.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 14:52:30 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 18