home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sourcery.han.de!not-for-mail
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- References: <13213427@sourcery.han.de> <4cu1tu$odj@usenet.rpi.edu>
- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:36:07 +0100
- X-NewsReader: IntuiNews 1.3a (7.9.95)
- Subject: Re: OS features (was Olaf Barthel hired by AT!!)
- Message-ID: <13213448@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <4cu1tu$odj@usenet.rpi.edu>, Christopher D. Judd <cdj@gmk02.chem.rpi.edu> wrote:
- > In article <13213427@sourcery.han.de> "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
- >
- > > ...
- >
- > > The problem with a CD-ROM distribution is that in order to sell well
- > > customers actually needs to have these drives installed. As far as I can
- > > tell a good number of Amiga users own CD-ROM drives, but data is lacking
- > > how many CD-ROM drives are out there. As long as AT is not shipping machines
- > > with built-in CD-ROM drives I venture saying that there will be no CD-ROM
- > > distribution of the OS.
- > >
- >
- > Given the low cost of producing CD-ROMS, why not produce one in
- > addition to the floppy based distribution?
-
- I'm not the guy to decide this, but even though CD-ROM production is
- fairly cheap these days it still does cost money.
-
- --
- Home: Olaf Barthel, Brabeckstrasse 35, D-30559 Hannover
- Net: olsen@sourcery.han.de
-