izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (09/25/90)
In article <50920@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >There is no way of using an OD with the >NeXTstation. Would NeXT please offer an OD in a shoe box as an option to be connected to SCSI port? Yes, I know OD is not SCSI, and a large VSLI (optical storage processor) is in the cube to handle ECC and much of the work involved in optical disk I/O. This chip is removed from the "slab" designs. But, it should be possible to include that within the shoe box and add a SCSI interface. NeXTstation looks very attractive for my home use, but I really like OD too. If it won't be possible to add an OD to NeXTstation, that would be a large negative factor. It also seems that an OD in a shoe box can be made much more resistant to dust problems by using good air filters. Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu