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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
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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