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Article #1564Re: Help! Sharing CD-ROMs
From: Adam Justin Thornton
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:15
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:15
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If the CD-ROMS are in ISO 9660 (or High Sierra) format, this will work.
This is good for _huge_ databases, I suppose things like gif files, and
text. Probably the best idea if you're networking them is to hang the
CD-ROMS off a SCSI bus on a Unix box. Be forewarned, however, that CD-ROM is
_very_ slow, and I have the uneasy feeling that if more than one person is
trying to access the data on a single CD (or stack, in a jukebox machine),
things will slow to an absolutely unacceptable crawl.
Hope this helps,
Adam
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!flammulated.rice.edu!adam From: adam@flammulated.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Help! Sharing CD-ROMs Summary: yes it is possible Message-ID: <1991Jun25.161527.14077@rice.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 16:15:27 GMT References: <1991Jun24.125250.2990@abblund.se> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University Lines: 17