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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (3664)	11/26/1997 4:32:00 PM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (1) of 4335

>>>Don't forget, a 50x CD-ROM will not provide significant performance over 12x CD-ROM given the same 80-110ms high end CD-ROM's access time. Some desgin info for you. To increase performance for a non-drum HDD-like DASD you can. 1) increase rpm 2) reduce access time 3) increase the density of the platter/disc (spt in HDD)<<< This information is assumming HD characteristic of better random accesses where on a HD the information is stored randomly unitl it is optimized with a defragger. On a CD-ROM information is stored more or less sequentially. Hence access times are not really that important as long as the CD-ROm has a good cache. 50X assumes that it has a higher throughput not really that it requires the platter to spin 50X faster. Even today most PCs are sold with CD-Roms. Buy the time a standard is set for DVD-ROM it will be past 2000 before they become mainstream in use. What about tdfx, no 2D/3D solution yet. They are in a niche market supplying Hard Core gamers with the best 3D solution to date. Serious threat by INTEL and NSM if they implement a decent 2D/3D on a system chip. cl

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