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- From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:53:43 GMT
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- In article <BzMzJ3.86n@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- > When I compare CD-ROM desktop computer systems, I am usually talking about
- >systems with a current OS, detached keyboard, hi-res non-interlaced display,
- >fast 32-bit CPU, 262,144-color or 16-million-color palette, and CD-ROM drive.
-
- You obviously think that CD-ROM is some sort of miraculous device that
- transforms your system into the next-wave of technology. IT IS NOT. CD-ROM is
- merely a storage medium, just like anything that has come before it, like
- tape, removable disk, and hard disks. CD-ROM doesn't add colors, it doesn't
- add speed, and it doesn't add features. It just stores. Any system can be
- made to work with a CD-ROM drive.
- As someone that has overseen two CD-ROM projects since September, I think
- I can fairly say I have a good grip on CD-ROM and what it means (see my
- tagline). A third will begin in the Spring (it's supposed to be demoed at
- CES). From this experience, I've begun to see CD-ROM as nothing more than
- mass-storage. It's really funny seeing all the "multimedia" marketing hype -
- the people that make these ads obviously have no clue.
- While I would also like to see Commodore add more CD-ROM support to the
- Amiga, such third-party solutions have been available for well over a year.
- Right now, I personally don't care WHO makes a product as long as it does
- what I want it to do. If Commodore has the CD-ROM drive I want, fine. If they
- do not, fine - I'll go to a third-party.
- CD-ROM does not determine what composes the rest of the system.
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- Gregg Giles (Dynamix, Inc.) "Infinite Laser Dog" Development Team
- All opinions expressed are my own. ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles
- Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10 1.5 (Amiga)
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