#CD-Rom Yeah Right
05-May-90 00:08:51
Sb: #102329-#CD-Rom Yeah Right
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Cheryl Peterson 70007,3242
Cheryl,
That's true…BUT…we're talking about 600 Meg of room.
Even at a read rate of 1 Meg per second…just to read the data,
let alone do anything with it…would take 10 minutes. In fact, read rates
will be much lower than that…so we're talking about an hour of just
reading data to use all the disk.
Now I realize that the data wouldn't be read in all at once, it'd
be in bits and pieces….but 600 Meg of data is a lot of data.
That's why I said 99% of a CD ROM would be wasted space…and that
would still leave game designers with 6 Meg of room…or more than 6 times
what they have now.
Don