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After reading your enthusiastic defense of CD-I, I wonder about a few
things: You are into CD-I because CD-RTOS is something like OS-9, right?
And there is a machine code / OS standard for these CDs? Most importantly,
when can we seriously expect to see consumer CD-I machines? Bushnell
pointed out that CD-I has been "eighteen months away" for about five years
now, and even called on a person in the audience who said they were a CD-I
developer and darned tired of waiting for it to ship. I immediately
recognized that the person was a "ringer" in the sense that Nolan probably
had planned to call them out from the very start, to emphasize this point.
It was a virtual certainty that at least one journalist present would ask
him to compare this to CD-I. Bushnell knows how to work a crowd. One thing
about him, he reminded me of drug czar William Bennett, in that he kept
mantioning the way this machine would carry a demo CD that would contain
lectures about drug abuse.