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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Help please on CD-ROM
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Date: 21 Sep 89 13:51:51 GMT
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In <1783@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> morris@jade.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mike Morris) writes:
> Who makes the CD-ROM drives these days?  (And is there any brand that
> is good or to avoid or whatever...)  Is there a standard format?

	I can't help on the first part, but for the second, there are 3
standard formats that I know of; ISO 9660, High Sierra, and something
called (why am I not surprised) Microsoft extended format.  From what I can
tell, virtually all CD-ROMs currently being produced are one of the first
two, and readers that can read one can also read the other.  I'm not really
an expert on the matter.

	Now, a question.  Has anybody used the Knowledge Finder system from
Aries Systems?  This is a Macintosh program used for scanning CD-ROM
databases.  I think they currently only have biomedical disks available,
but should be spreading out to other fields.  We're looking at their
MEDLINE system and need feedback from current users on how well it works
compared to the more traditional PC-based systems.
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