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Article #506Re: request for info
From: Tooraj Enayati
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 06:50
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 06:50
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skiddgj@cc.curtin.edu.au writes: >Hi All >With current technology, cr-roms still tend to be quite slow, and have >relatively poor transfer rates. I have noticed that on-line documentation >services tend to be quite slow and very annoying at times. >Just wondering if there are any new innovations in the world of cr-roms, that >overcome the speed limitation of current cd-roms. What has been done - a >complete redesign of the drives themselves, or some fancy caching technique, >or something else? Recently there has been new CD-ROM drives introduced to the market which are twice as fast as the older one at around 300Kb/sec. There is been a new CD-ROM cache (called SpeedyCD or something like that) which is designed specificly for CD-ROM players and claims to speed up CD-ROM dramaticly. -- :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-) Tooraj Enayati Melbourne Australia tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au Then he said, "Put a smilie and you can get away saying almost anything." (-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:(-:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1123a2,763e7be831c4558e X-Google-Attributes: gid1123a2,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c9,763e7be831c4558e X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c9,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed01,763e7be831c4558e X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed01,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-05-20 00:24:22 PST Newsgroups: aus.cdrom,alt.cd-rom,bit.listserv.cdromlan Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!titan!trlluna!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au!tooraj From: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) Subject: Re: request for info Message-ID: <tooraj.737880619@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. References: <1993May20.085005.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 06:50:19 GMT Lines: 24