Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CD-ROM and the Amiga Message-ID: <7501@gollum.twg.com> Date: 8 Jul 90 23:24:48 GMT References: <3347@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 27 In article <3347@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from stevem@hal.CSS.GOV >That, and many of the other databases on CD-ROM, are more than likely MS-DOS >format...let's get real here, it's just like software. Yes, but.. At this point in time CD-ROM has been in the IBM & Mac marketplaces for 2-3 years while the Amiga market hasn't had 'em. That makes those products enough of a standard such that the Amiga market must deal with it in some way ... Steve mentioned the climatalogical data. I'm interested in the OED. (er.. Oxford English Dictionary .. ) The people providing either one of those are providing to a limited audience and assumably have little reason to arrange something to satisfy a few weirdos who insist on using good computers. At any rate, the _Amazing_Amiga_ article mentioned an ISO spec for the format on the disk. Since I don't know ISO numbers (other than the ones for electronic mail) I don't know if that ISO number refers to the standard CD-ROM format or not. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!