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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:46:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <C05JLF.BLB@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> <C043q8.8pC@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C043q8.8pC@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > Read-write CDs have been promised for some time. They are here already,
- > but only in very-expensive units that can only erase and re-write a CD a
-
- No, they're not. There are read-write optical disk drives for computers
- using a variety of mechanisms. I'm talking about commodity audio CDs.
-
- > Even after read-write CDs do finally arrive, the manufacturing costs of
- > such CDs will likely be higher than for CD-ROMs.
-
- For mass production they'll be exactly the same, because they'll be the
- exact same parts.
-
- Geeze, Marc, try reading what I wrote instead of scanning for keywords and
- flaming away.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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