From: Sunder (sunder_at_sunder.net)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 20:11:55 PDT
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Raj Patel wrote:
> I believe there are a few projects around to allow similar
> functionality to Suns Smartcard - plug in, authenticate at a
> Javastation and get all your 'stuff' using USB-keys.
That was one of the ideas behind NeXT's magneto-optical drives - have a
rewriteable disk large enough to hold your entire storage. Bring it with
you to any other NeXT machine and off you go.... didn't work too well due
to speed issues...
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