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From: 6600bike@hub.UUCP (Puneet Pasrich)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM players for Mac
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Date: 18 Jan 90 05:50:41 GMT
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From article <1990Jan10.181218.17218@aucs.uucp>, by paul@aucs.uucp (Paul Steele):
> We will probably be getting a CD-ROM player for our network server
> soon and want to know what players others have been using.  I've
> been told that the Apple CD-ROM player is slow and overpriced (as usual).

I'm using the Apple CD on a AppleShare server and have had a couple
probelms with it.  1) It's a major pain to "publish" a CD w/ AppleShare.
Without going into the details, you have to shutdown the server and run
the Admin application from a different disk.  Also, it took me a record
_2_ hours (that's right, two hours) to publish Educorp 3.0, a PD CD with
lots of small files.  2) It takes a bunch of time to actually get the
server up-and-running with CDs online.  For some lame reason (it's lame
because I don't understand this phenomen (sp?) yet) AppleShare has to
check all of the files on the CD to "make sure it's readable".  Now, why
on a write-protected media does it have to check, I don't know.
 
 I bought another CD for the network to try to see if Appl
 s CD was lame.  I bought a Denon, after checking out prices for a
 while.  Anyway, this was _much_ slower than Apple's.  
 I'd say go with the Apple's...if you have the money!
  

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