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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM speeds...
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 00:05:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 00:05:03 1985
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> I don't doubt that it's possible to improve somewhat on the two
> second seeks of the Pro players.  But I don't expect the kind of 
> speeds that would be required to make CD's really competitive, in terms
> of seek times, with conventional hard-surfaced magnetic media.
> 
> --Lauren--

Lauren, I don't dispute what you say, but the above statement  reminds
me of a design engineer I knew at one of my previous jobs.  He told me
in no uncertain terms that there would NEVER be a 64K memory  chip  on
the  market  because  64K  was  the  maximum  addressable  space  of a
microprocessor and you had to leave room  for  a  power  on  ROM.  Now
maybe  there  never  will  be  a CD that can compete with hard-surface
magnetic media, but how much you want to bet that after  these  things
get popular the R & D will provide about half second access times max.
-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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