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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
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Subject: Re: CD ROMs to use 68000 OS9
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Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 19:19:21 EST
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> In article <1185@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
> >
> >     Mike K. mentioned a CD-ROM standard based on OS-9 68K.  In fact, it's
> >called CDI. 
> >                                            Cheers! -- Jim O.
> >James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
> 
> I can sense Jim's glee now that OS-9 is the darling of JerryP and the
> InfoWorld circles of journalism, by virtue of its incorporation in
> the CDI standard, but I have reservations and I would like to hear some
> net input.
> 
> 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