Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!fireant.ma.utexas.edu!chari From: chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Can NeXT play audio CD's? Keywords: CD, CD-ROM Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 90 16:29:56 GMT References: <5596@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@ut-emx.UUCP Lines: 49 daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes: >Sun Microsystems is now pushing CD-ROM, and has announced in an official news >release that > "In 1991, Sun plans to convert exclusively to compact disc as the > distribution medium for all its system and application software." >Finally catching up to NeXT, eh? Hardly. It is read only not read write. A totally different application. Actually it really, realy sucks. We do not have a CD ROM player here and we'd rather buy a workstation than spend money on this stupid thing. It is absurd to make us all toss our now useless tape drives in the trash can. We have two 150s, 60 and 20 MB QIC drives that work just fine thank you. And we can record on them too! > "Each CD stores up to 644 megabytes on a single-sided disc." >Oops, Sun is ahead of NeXT (for now). Nope. Sun is just adopting a standard that has been around for more than five years. The reason NeXT's optical disk holds so little (Ha) is because of the error correction space on the disk. You more of that for a write many optical disk than you do for a write once like a CD. > "The SunCD uses a file system structure that conforms to established > standards (ISO 9660 -- the "High Sierra Group" format). >Is there any way NeXT (read Canon) can also read this standard? The technology is very different. I think not. High sierra is not anything to write home about. CD filesystems are notoriously slow. On a Mac, the CD ROM takes forever when you load a new disk. Why would a NeXT need to use this format anyway? > "And yes, you CAN play your CD audio discs in the SunCD! A headset or > speakers can be plugged into the audio jack located on the front > panel." >Can a NeXT do that? No. But, a Sun cannot record music on its CDs. -- -- "I've got good news. The gum you like is going to come back in style." -- Chris Whatley - Research Systems Administrator UT-Austin Mathematics E-mail: chari@math.utexas.edu (NeXT) Ph: (O):512/471-7711 (H):512/499-0475