Re: CD-ROM: What's it good for?

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From: Jay Vassos-Libove
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 16:37

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In article <WINDLEY.91Jan31102752@cheetah.cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu> windley@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes:

I'm getting ready to accept a bid from DEC on a DECStation 5000/200PX. The
system software is comoing on CD-ROM and I'm getting a CD-ROM drive. My
question is what is the CD-ROM drive good for besides reading software
updates, etc. Are there any other disks that can be used with it? Can it
play Music CD's like IBM's drive can? Is there any special software that
one can get for it?

The CD-ROM drive has some advantages over the TK50 tape distribution media.
For one thing, it is significantly faster for a standard installation,
and especially for later software subset addition. Eventually (and this
is my own personal opinion, NOT DEC TALKING) I expect the DEC will
distribute everything on CD ROM, kina like Sun is doing now.

No, the current DEC "RRD40" CD ROM drives do not have a music port on them.

Current other products that are useful with the CD ROM drive include the
"bookreader" software which allows you to have online documentation with
full indices, so that pulling up a documentation (same as printed) page
is faster than leafing through a printed book. Ask your sales rep for
other such products and for pricing information.

Jay Vassos-Libove libove@libove.det.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation decwrl!libove.det.dec.com!libove
Detroit ACT/Ultrix Resource Center Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
Farmington Hills, Michigan and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!

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