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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fish Compendium Name (Re: CD-ROM for the Amiga)
Keywords: Sun CD-ROM
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Date: 18 Aug 90 01:01:07 GMT
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In <1990Aug18.054937.11246@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>
>[Need an installed base of Amiga CD-ROM drives to sell CD-ROM disks, but
> also need an existing base of CD-ROMware to sell Amiga CD-ROM drives.]
>
>>This is why it is so important to have a CD-ROM
>>available that will sell fairly well; one that will cause folks to go out and
>>buy a drive. Personally, I think that a _fully_ indexed Fred Fish collection,
>>whether it be on 1 disk or 3, along with a good search engine, would be the
>>catalyst that starts the ball rolling (or the CD-ROM spinning).
>
>Another solution of course is to make the Amiga software and hardware
>compatible with the existing CD-ROM data disks.

Well, it can (and should) be made compatible with existing data disks, as far
as the file system format is concerned; that is, it can be made conformant to
the High Sierra or ISO 9660 specs. This, however, says absolutely nothing about
the contents, which can be (and are) determined by the publisher of the data
disk, exclusively.

-larry

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