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To: "Richard Childers" <rchilders@hamquist.com>
Cc: "Bruce Campbell" <bc@thehub.com.au>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: some nice advice....
References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990617092943.1559i-100000@zerlargal.humbug.org.au> <3768F2C2.B8C340BB@hamquist.com>
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 17 Jun 1999 19:11:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: "Richard Childers"'s message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 06:06:10 -0700"
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"Richard Childers" <rchilders@hamquist.com> writes:
> It seems to me that CDs have been fast enough for quite a while;
> regrettably, as devices get faster and faster, peoples' expectations
> seem to get higher and higher.

Modern CD-ROMs are fast, but have very bad latency, which really kills
random access performance. The only manufcaturer I know of which makes
CD-ROM drives with acceptable latency is Pioneer.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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