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A couple points about the 256 MB optical drive I have not seen mentioned.
Summarizing my opinions, a 256 MB optical disk drive seems a tad too large or
too small to be a really useful media system.

Case A) - Software Distribution.

It would seem that the best cost/performance ratio would occur if removable
media were sized to typical distribution software.  I can just see people
paying $50 media costs for 500 KB of data.  Even large programs such as GNU
EMACS, TeX, and X11R2 fit on a 45 MB tape with room to spare.  WHAT TAKES 256
MB to distribute??  It is easy to use 256 MB but not with one distribution. Oh
I forgot about the complete works of Shakspeare to which I refer at least
daily :-).

Case B) - Backup

If you have one 330 MB drive (which will not be enough - somebody's law), you
need TWO disks to back it up.  A 660 MB is 3 disks, etc.  Why is the removable
disk not a 1+ GB optical disk?  Cost?  Technology? Disk shuffling will still
be a problem, escpecially if people implement 100+ networks of NeXT machines,
each of which need to be backed up.

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