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- From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 00:15:17 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <BzJ23G.Any@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >Who says a CD-ROM drive has to cost $700? I'm flipping through a
- >bunch of rags here, and I'm seeing prices like: $188, $219, $199
- >(some of these include a bunch of disks, too). Yeah, these are not
- >the fast ones... access times 600ms and worse; and they're not SCSI
- >interfaces, but that's not important when you're only using it to
- >load software (rather than accessing Multi-Media databases). Face
- >it, CD-ROM is the distribution medium of the future, and the future
- >is now.
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- I would settle for one of those, but they are not supported by SVR4.2.
- I assume they all have some "funny" AT bus interface and depend on
- manufacture supplied drivers. Maybe PC OS vendors should make an effort
- of writing a driver for one these cheap CD players and including the
- hardware with the OS. The extra cost wouldn't be far from the cost of
- na all floppy distribution.
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