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Article #351Re: NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM & NeXT???
From: Florian Gutzwiller
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:17
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:17
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Eric P. Scott writes > In article <1992Aug1.000328.6339@leland.Stanford.EDU> > m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M Carling) writes: > >My understanding is that you need a ROM from NEC that fixes a bug of > >theirs that reports the block size as zero. The Mac doesn't care, but the > >NeXT does. > > If you've been following comp.unix.aux (the "real" operating > system for the Mac), you've read that NEC drives don't work > there, either. > > > Last I heard, NEC didn't think it was worthwhile to correct > >their mistake. > > Sounds to me like it's not worthwhile to purchase NEC CD-ROM drives. > > -=EPS=- > -- > "It just works ... out of the box." > "It's a Sony!" I read that NEC drives have about a two times better transfer rate than the Sony. and this IS a difference. The NeXT color monitors should be Sony though. -Florian -- Florian A. Gutzwiller Phone: +41-61-281-8600 Open Systems AG Fax: +41-61-281-8603 Basel/Switzerland E-Mail: flog@open.ch (NeXT)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!chx400!bernina!news From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CDR-73 CD-ROM & NeXT??? Message-ID: <1992Aug1.181721.4047@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: 1 Aug 92 18:17:21 GMT References: <1992Aug1.013155.14512@csus.edu> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Reply-To: flog@open.ch Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Lines: 32