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- CD Index (CDI) - Compact Disc Read Only Memory Performance Index
- Copyright 1994, Advanced Information Retrieval Technologies
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- CD Index measures a relative performance index for CD-ROM drives. This
- number converges towards a constant number based on seek time and data
- transfer rate for any specific ROM drive / computer / test disc
- combination. Computer system changes such as clock speed, buss speed,
- ROM drivers and, Operating System can alter the CD Index. CD Index
- permits rapid comparisons between systems or between changes within a
- system from a measured performance point of view.
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- Registration fee $ 5.00 each copy, specify 5.25 fd, 3.5 fd or CD-ROM.
- (NC residents add $ .60 sales tax.)
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- Shipping and handling US Mail 1st Class $1.00, Priority Mail $2.90.
- (Outside US shipping and handling US AirMail $10.00 each.)
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- Send a check or money order in US currency payable to:
- Advanced Information Retrieval Technologies
- or
- Include MasterCard or Visa Card Number, expiration date, card holder
- name, bank name, amount authorized and signature.
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- Advanced Information Retrieval Technologies
- 244 Deerfield Rd
- Apex, NC 27502
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- CD Index is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,
- expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of
- merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no
- liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the
- use of CD Index.
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- CD Index is a shareware program and is provided at no charge to the user
- for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do
- not give it away altered or as part of another system. The basis of
- shareware software is to provide personal computer users with quality
- software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for
- programmers to continue to develop new products.
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- If you find this program useful and find that you continue to use CD
- Index after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration
- payment of $5.00 to Advanced Information Retrieval Technologies. The
- $5.00 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer
- at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An
- example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may
- be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there
- is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used
- at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at
- the same time.
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- Commercial users of CD Index must register and pay for their copies of CD
- Index within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-
- License arrangements may be made by contacting Advanced Information
- Retrieval Technologies.
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- You are encouraged to pass a copy of CD Index along to your friends for
- evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find
- that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy without
- the shareware registration screen.
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- Anyone distributing CD Index and charging any kind of fee must first
- contact Advanced Information Retrieval Technologies at the address below
- for authorization. This will permit Advanced Information Retrieval
- Technologies to keep the distributor up to date with the latest version
- of CD Index.