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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: CD ROMs to use 68000 OS9
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 13:01:24 EST
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Summary: I Don't Know What Form It'll Take

In article <821@ihwpt.UUCP> knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
>> 
>> As I understand it, OS-9 will be used as an internal control operating
>> system within a closed, appliance type of product (i.e., like
>> a stereo component) which will use custom--and we can assume proprietary--
>> chips for graphics and audio.
>> 
>> The question is: What advantage is held by a computer running OS-9 if
>> the CDI standard becomes a success?
> ...
>>     6- that OS-9 is really great, independent of CDI, and that you
>> 	come out ahead even without any of the above panning out.
>> 		    jimm
>
>When I posted, I thought only of (6) above -- that this CD
>standard was a nice feather in the cap of OS9 and we could all
>brag about "knowing OS9 when."  True, OS9 will be sealed up inside
>a box, and hardly anyone will know it's there.
>But I will, and so will you... mike k

     Mike, I've been trying to find out what level the CDI will see OS-9
and so far I haven't gotten an answer.  On BIX, we are currently winding
up a special conference with experts on CD-ROM, some of whom may know
a bit about this, but my question seems to have been buried in the mass.

     If I remember, I'll try to ask the question again.  I'll try to
post what I find out at that time.  In the meantime, we can't assume
anything.

                                         Cheers! -- Jim O.

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