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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 19:34:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.162726.11411@mozart.amd.com>, brett@cayman.amd.com (Brett Stewart) writes:

>What this has to do with computer architecture is that the economics
>here pretty much predict that the things on our desks will have CD
>slots Real Soon Now, and this stuff will become indispensable to us.

I confess, I was pretty tempted by the offer in DAK Electronics for the mondo
5 CD-ROM set which had a full library of reference materials (All yours if you
had a PC-class machine with VGA...) and I usually wouldn't give very much in
DAK a second thought. 

Sun wants to issue all their software on CDs by, what, '91? Digital has a
similiar program, but they put most of their layered products on a 3 CD set.
All you need is the proper License Paks and you can run the stuff. I think
Digital will be multi-media (ie: reel, cartridge, TK50/70, CD-ROM) for 
quite a while, tho, due to their installed base of equipment. With Sun, you
just throw it on the SCSI and you're good to go.

>A guy from Denon (yeah, like in audio CD)
>told me that if you show up with your master tape and $1800, 48
>hours later you could start getting your CD ROMS for under 2 bucks
>in Jewel Cases, you supply your own art.  

VMS backup format? UN*X tar? And what gets written out? Don't Sun's CD's
differ from VMS's format? Or do they both adhere to the "High Sierra" format? 
I never got that straight. After all, there is only one format for audio CDs.

>Other interesting news was
>that Full Motion Video compressed via DCT was getting 70 minutes per
>CD-ROM of normal US TV resolution video, and people expect this to
>quadruple within a few years.
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