Re: CD-ROMs: a theoretical upper limit?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

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.

I'm getting quite spoiled by my new RamFAST with a 1 GB drive hooked
up to it.  I don't have to wait very long for anything to load
anymore.  It bugs me when I have to wait for stuff to load from
floppies now so having to wait about the same amount of time for stuff
to load off a CD would bug me as well.

Besides, as I've said in other messages, you never know what software
may come out in the future that will require that you have a faster
CD-ROM drive to keep up.  I'm thinking of a spooling movie type player
that will play an animation sequence directly from the CD without the
need to load the entire thing into memory.  This way even people with
only a 2 MB IIgs can still view that 100 MB animation that was created
with something like Animasia.

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