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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k,net.micro
Subject: CD ROMs to use 68000 OS9
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Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 13:32:59 EST
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Phillips, Sony, and Microware (a not-quite-as-big SW
house in Iowa that created/es OS9) have agreed on a
standard for CD-ROM peripherals.
The internal controller will be a 68000 running
OS9/68K, presumably out of ROM (or booted from each
CD disk maybe?).

This was revealed in the latest MOTD, the newsletter
of the National OS9 Users' Group.

I don't know what percentage of CD-ROM machines this
scheme will cover -- I think there are already some
boxes out there.

	mike k
	
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