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From: david@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: CD-ROM speed
Message-ID: <791@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 02:18:37 GMT
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In article <1972@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes:
>In article <17309@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>>CD ROM roots would be bad because CD ROM's are blindingly slow.
>
>Currently true.  But don't take the current state-of-the-art as an intrinsic
>limit.  They'll get faster.

According to "CD-ROM: The New Papyrus" by Microsoft Press, faster data
transfer from CD-ROMs is unlikely because the frequency of the data starts
to approach the frequency of the servo mechanisms used to keep the optics
on track and in focus.

				-- David Schachter
				   (daisy!david or well!davids)

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