Stereo mini-system question

[Icerigger]

Friends,

I'm looking into purchasing a stereo mini-system and was wondering what "dual deck recording" means. What is it good/used for? The one I want to purchase does not have it yet my second and third choices do. All these systems have dual cassettes.

Icerigger

[flyboy]

I'm guessing it means you can tape from one deck to the other.

Why you're looking at tape decks at all is beyond me, though.

[Saltire]

My guess is that it means both decks can record. On many of these systems, only one of the decks have a record head. I guess the dual-deck recorders have one on both. The only reason I could think of for this is to record something longer than one tape side. I suppose the system would just start the second recorder when the first one runs out of tape.