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From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple's new CD-ROM rumor!!
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Date: 31 Oct 90 23:47:45 GMT
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[Stuff about a possible CD-ROM drive with a 28-ms access time.]

At first thought, I was excited about a potential fast CD-ROM
drive; but on second thought, although the access time is much
faster, the TidBit article--as presented in the post--doesn't
talk about data transfer rate.  I understand that CD-ROM drives
are limited to the transfer rate used by normal CDs and they
aren't anything to brag about.  So, ultimately, even though this
new CD-ROM drive will get to a portion of the disk faster, your
Mac, or whatever computer, won't read the info into RAM any
faster than current CD-ROMs.

Comments?


Ken

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