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The CD-ROM Drive - A Brief System Description (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The CD-ROM Drive - A Brief System Description (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The Compact Disc (CD), as a standardized information carrier, has
become one of the most successful consumer products ever marketed.
Although the original disc was intended for audio playback, its
specific advantages opened very quickly the way towards various
computer applications. The standardization of the Compact Disc
Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM) and of all succeeding similar products,
like Compact Disc interactive (CD-i), Photo and Video CD, CD
Recordable (CD-R), and CD Rewritable (CD R/W), has substantially
enlarged the range of possible applications. The plastic disc
represented from the very beginning a removable medium of large
storage capacity. The advent of the personal computer accompa nied
by the increasing demand for both data distribution and exchange
have strongly marked the evolution of the CD-ROM drive. The number
of sold CD-ROM units exceeded 60 millions in 1997 when compared to
about 2.5 millions in 1992. As computing power continuously
improved over the years, computer pe ripherals have also targeted
better performance specifications. In particular, the speed of
CD-ROM drives increased from the so-called 1X in 1984 to dou ble
speed in 1992, and further to 32X at the beginning of 1998. The
average time needed to access data on disc has dropped from about
300 ms to less than 90 ms within the same period of time."
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