Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-beagle.cts.com!mmunz From: mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: FST question Message-ID: <8910031744.AA19337@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 3 Oct 89 16:50:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Network Comment: to #11207 by farrier@apple.com > simultaneously. I have no idea as to the actual usage of the > High Sierra FST, but I *can* tell you the reasoning behind doing > it first: we were in development of our CD-ROM drive then, and > wanted a simultaneous release on both platforms, instead of > only giving Macintosh users access to CD-ROM technology. > I does seem like it would have made more sense to come out with a HFS FST, since it would get much more usage.. It's great that the IIGS can use the CD-ROM drive.. but 99% of IIGS owners are probably not going to get or use the CD-ROM within the next 18 months. In fact, if you can afford to a CD-ROM player, chances are you could afford to get another computer (namely a Mac). That's not to say that having the High Sierra FST isn't great. More is always better (most of the time), as long as the Mac HFS FST will be out shortly. --Mark Munz