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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be



warrl@blarg.net (Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin) wrote:
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> tice@nai.net (Bradley D. Tice) wrote:
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> >Not totally comparable. I have heard about Beta being as good as VHS, but
> >they were only able to store about 60 minutes of video. 
> 
> Beta was *better* than VHS... but the people doing VHS came up with a
> way to put 2 hours on 1 tape more than a year before Sony did the same
> for Beta.
> 
> That one-year delay was fatal for Beta.
> 
> The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
> has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes.  This is how long it
> *has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD.  That
> particular symphony is extremely popular in Japan; if they had not
> provided it, another company would have figured out a way to do so and
> then would have blown the original makers out of the Japanese market.
> 
> 
> 
This has even less to do with SGI computers than the PC - Apple discussion?
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