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To: Sung Chung who wrote (8290)1/2/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Daniel   of 11057
 
> Concerns .... Network Computers (NC) will make HDDs obsolete.
> Hardly! If you decide to store info on a network, the networks will
> need the storage capacity. Just because you transferred where the
> info is being stored does not mean the whole industry will be
> defunct.

But mightn't it still reduce significantly the amount of disk space needed? You'd only need to store one copy of common data (e.g., OS and applications), instead of having a disk on each machine to store its copy of the data.

Daniel
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