Re: CD-ROMs: a theoretical upper limit?

[nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article <369906dc.5304617@news.bconnex.net>, CUTjefbla@bconnex.net
(Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>On 6 Jan 1999 09:15:15 GMT, buggie@ben11.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)
>wrote:
>
>>But _why_ is fast speed needed in a CD-rom player?  I could understand
>>with games that needed frequent disk access, but if the goal is just to
>>load the program, who cares how slow???
>
>Because you don't have to wait as long for the program to load.

Actually, no matter how fast a CD you could hook up to the GS, it'd
still be bogged down by the slow access time of the CD-ROM.  That's
where most of the delay would come in, and it's not something that
can be easily gotten around with the way CD's and CD-ROM's are
designed.

I haven't paid too much attention lately, but I seem to remember the
access time of most CD-ROM drives being around 120-150 milliseconds.
Compare that to your 1GB HD which probably has an access time of 
around 10 milliseconds.

Greg B.
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