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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:10:12 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4cjm1k$eo2@news2.realtime.net> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4c9op2$k9o@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4ca3gu$4nc@news1.halcyon.com> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <4cfq48$9lg@news1.halcyon.com> <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: maria-5j.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: 525dd67e30741c9edded5b2f X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32061 alt.os.linux:6861 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11451 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1724 In article <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de>, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de says... > >tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: > >Easy: How can you know you will not need more than one CD drive in the >future. How can you know you won't have to use this CD-ROM on a >workstation someday? Buying SCSI means to lower the possibility to >trough away equipment because you can't predict the future. > >No, either *add* the $200 or buy more memory after a while. You can't >upgrade your CD-ROM to SCSI after a while. > >Martin It's not a question of price differential between IDE and SCSI drives. It's a case of throw away what you've got and get something different. It seems to me that what you're saying to all those folks who already have IDE CDROMs is "go use Linux, FreeBSD is not for you." -- Dave Brown Austin, TX