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Subject: Re: CD ROM formats (was Re: Questio
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Date: 30 Oct 89 14:24:00 GMT
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RE: CD-ROM formats

The major part of my job is publishing legal books on CD-ROM.  I have
attended all 4 major MicroSoft CD-ROM conferences.  In the very early days
there were multiple formats, but the High Sierra group was an
industry-wide group to standardize the disc format.  ISO 9660 is a
slightly revised international standard version of High Sierra.  

Virtually all new CD-ROM titles are issued in ISO 9660 (or at least High
Sierra).  The only other format that one sees very often is Mac HFS but
this is becoming rare since most publishers would prefer one disc for both
the  Mac and IBM-clone market.

I have never heard of a PRODOS CD and would think it pretty foolish since
no other machine could read it, whereas a IIGS with a CDROM drive CAN read
ISO-9660

(The opinions expressed here, right or wrong, are my own.)

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