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Message   Misha Gopaul    Doug Zbikowski   Which is Best?   March 25, 1996
 6:07 PM *   



* In a message originally to Doomsday, Doug Zbikowski said:

DZ> Well...not exaclty.  The spped refers to the rate  the disk
DZ> spins.  A quad
DZ> speed spins 4 times faster than an audio CD player.  The
DZ> faster the disk can
DZ> spin, the more data that can be accessed.

Then why don't manufacturers just make CDROM drives which can spin 500x
faster than an audio CD player, and then we'd all be very happy? :-)

Surely it's to do with the speed at which the laser itself can read,
rather than the speed at which it spins?

See ya
Misha
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