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To: sally duros who wrote (23700)	3/29/1999 7:37:00 AM
From: Steve Martin	Read Replies (3) of 213176

Sure, Apple has DVD-ROM drives. The problem is that all these DVD's with PC features have Wintel executables that you can't run on a Mac. I have yet to find a "Mac friendly" DVD with DVD-ROM supplements other than a few that just had Adobe PDF files with scripts, etc. SoftPC/SoftWindows don't offer a good solution since they don't yet have drivers that allow you to access the DVD-ROM directly (you have to mount it as a shared volume which doesn't work with all the software on the DVD's). Also, many of them want to play DVD video in a window and the drivers and/or performance isn't there on the PC emulators. Maybe if they had put DVD drives in iMac's, people would have developed for it.

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