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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!peter
- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:55:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <C03uwt.6xJ@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu> <1hqcs4INN4tb@pith.uoregon.edu> <C023rw.C34@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C023rw.C34@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > I don't pay much attention to hype, contrary to what people believe. I
- > just don't think 1.3 Gigabytes of potential inexpensive storage can be
- > dismissed very easily. Yes, I said 1.3 Gigabytes. There is no particular
- > reason why CD-ROM discs cannot be double-sided. They are single-sided now
- > because the extra storage is not needed.
-
- Um, I believe double-sided CDs would require special pressing, since the laser
- looks through the width of the disk. You also would lose the advantage of
- commodity equipment.
-
- Personally, I've got great hopes for the small read/write and read/only
- CDs (mini-CD). You should be able to get 60-120M of read/write storage
- on one, and they're as cheap to manufacture as CDs for ROM versions.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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