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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: 20 Meg floppies
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Date: 3 May 91 16:39:13 GMT
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In article <weaG8nv+1@cs.psu.edu> 
           melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> > ...(quoted comments on 20 meg floppies & phase-changed ODs)...
> 
> There was in an article in Byte Magazine last fall.  We should be
> hearing more about the drives by this summer.  They sound like they
> should satify software distribution problems for 10 years or so.  And
> let's not forget the problem of backuping up the NeXT.  You aren't
> going to do that on a CD-ROM.

While I'd love to have larger capacity floppies, I still prefer CD-ROM as a  
distribution medium.  I have had drive problems (or operator error...) wipe out  
a floppy disk that I was installing from.  I'd much rather have large products  
distributed on a medium that is permanent.  And CDs only cost $2-$3 to punch  
out (assuming you need a few thousand copies), while these new capacity floppy  
drives are going to be more expensive than that.

I'd really really like to have 20 meg (or larger) floppies too, of course!!!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
