CompuServe Messages

As John Foust points out, not all data on a CD-ROM needs to be read in for any given session with a program, be it game or not. A jumbo monster killer lookup table that is accessed perhaps less than 50 times during a session might save many minutes of calculation, and if it takes up 50 megs, so what? It cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called wasted. Programmers looking into CD-ROM need to throw their preconceived notions aside and start looking at the technology with a fresh approach. Previous advances in technology have had to have the same approach, else we would all still be writing disks in 80 character records.