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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Summary: Can the Atari CD ROM _hardware_ handle mixed sound/data
Keywords: CD ROM MetaDOS TOS
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Date: 6 Oct 90 23:49:09 GMT
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>There is still a reason to go with a SONY or Hitachi.  Multimedia.
>This is where voice/music and data are intermixed on the CD ROM.  the Atari
>unit cannot handle this at all!

>Howard Johnson
>ATT BELL LABS
>att!lzsc!hcj
>hcj@lzsc.att.com

I was under the impression that the problem with handling the mixed audio/data
CDs in the Atari CD-ROM unit was just a software problem.

Is it?  If so, it will eventually be corrected as these discs become more
popular, I'm sure.

	--Steve

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