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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
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- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.163903.14404@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 16:39:03 GMT
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- In <BzuMFo.JnI@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >Amiga. These discs have the data in a custom format, which would require
- >ports to the Amiga of large amounts of software or even parts of operating
- >systems to use this data. And discs like these make up the bulk of CD-ROM
- >discs that are available.
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- A quick look through the CD-ROM catalog in the local bookstore proves this
- wrong. While there is a large number of disks in proprietary formats most
- disks hold files in standard formats using either the ISO or Mac HFS filesystem.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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