He has been shy about specifics but shedding underperformers like the electronics testing and chemical analysis businesses would free up management to concentrate on high-growth, high-profit areas like printers, software and its recordable CD-ROM product.

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One thing that separates the MyDitto from the competition, though, is what it doesn't come with, namely, a CD-ROM for loading any software.

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Concealed in a plastic security carton on a poorly lit section of shelving, somewhere between Random Accountancy Software and Pass Your Driving Test on CD-ROM.

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We test CD-ROM read performance with Testa Labs' CD-Tach 98 2.0 software, and we gauge CD-R performance by writing 430MB of data to CD-R twice: once from an image file and once on the fly.

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Corel Linux is also pretty thin on software (at least with respect to the CD-ROM image you can download, which is all I've been able to test so far).

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