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From: adam@flammulated.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
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Subject: Re: Help! Sharing CD-ROMs
Summary: yes it is possible
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Date: 25 Jun 91 16:15:27 GMT
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If the CD-ROMS are in ISO 9660 (or High Sierra) format, this will work.
This is good for _huge_ databases, I suppose things like gif files, and
text.  Probably the best idea if you're networking them is to hang the
CD-ROMS off a SCSI bus on a Unix box.  Be forewarned, however, that CD-ROM is
_very_ slow, and I have the uneasy feeling that if more than one person is
trying to access the data on a single CD (or stack, in a jukebox machine),
things will slow to an absolutely unacceptable crawl.

Hope this helps,
Adam


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