CompuServe Thread

#self-introduction

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#38500From: Dr.Holthaus+HeinischJan 29, 1993 3:33 PM
Dear Kathy, we are quite content with the Pioneer DRM. I don't think it is to fast, but the most imporant thing for us is that it is easly to be integrated into a CD-ROM-Network. Regards, Christian
#38577From: Katherine CochraneJan 30, 1993 12:15 PM
Christian, Thank you for the report. I was very impressed with the Pioneer 604X when I saw it in September, and of course it is 4 times as fast as the 600, so that would take care of a lot of the speed problems. I'd think that on a network having as fast a player as possible would be important. Maybe I'll be able to justify one soon…. Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
#38645From: Dr.Holthaus+HeinischJan 31, 1993 9:08 AM
Kathy, I saw this Pioneer 604x,too and I agree with your opinion, we will start offering this player soon for our network solutions. Concering the performance discussion of CD-ROM in network, our software CD-Manager reports to the supervisor: which CD-ROM is accesses by which user from which station how long So, our statitistic package can find our the real parallel accesses. And now the interesting thing is: We analayse the statistical data in one of our networks, where 40 public PCs are accessible by any student in a 20.000-students university and additional 310 PC in institutes can access the 28 CD-ROM-databases provided by the Meridian Data servers: The maximum number of parrallel accesses to the same CD-ROM was only 5 for all CD-ROMs provided!!!! The avarage is about 2 !!!! Now 10 minutes retrieval are eqivalent to a max. of 1 minute physical access to the CD-ROM in average. So in a statistical view 10 users could work on the same CD-ROM without heavy influence to each other. Best regards, Christian