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Jerome Fine replies: I have used a DVD burner for about 3 years: (a) To burn a monthly backup file - 4 * 1 GByte per month or 3 DVDs per year. Since each monthly backup would have required 2 CDs, it was simply not practical. About once a year, I check the old DVD-Rs to make sure I can still read them. (b) For some reason I do NOT understand, when I MOUNT DU0: CDROMi:/RONLY under E11 using the DVD drive and a bootable CD with RT-11 software, E11 can read the first 64 blocks on the CD (16 CD sectors) and actually BOOT RT-11. Once you find a use for DVDs that makes life a lot easier, I suggest you will make them "trailing" edge technology as well Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.