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    15-Oct-86 11:40:21
Sb: #36329-CD-ROM
Fm: Aegis Development 76067,2500
To: Jim Park 76625,323

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There is a standard for CD-ROM (High Serria Group) that specifies the physical format of the disk. Players from Sony, Phillips, Toshiba and others are avaliable Howvere we don't know of one that interfaces to the Amiga …. yet. The data transfer rate for a CD-ROM disk is about 150K bytes/second, and I'd advise a direct read as Amiga Dos would slow this down considerably. The seek time is about 1 to 2 seconds, so you have to be clever on file organization. Aegis is involved in CD-I and CD-ROM development, so if you want to …. give us a call and I can give you more information. William Volk 213 392 9972