At 05:55 PM 24-06-98 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
CD-ROMs have the advantage that they are far more
widespread than any of
the above disks ever dreamed to be. They are world standards, as oppossed
to company-specific standards. With the music industry behind them,
CD-ROMs will be around for a long time.
Indeed, and with DVD being able to read CDs you'd expect no difficulty in
reading CDs for the next 20 years or so. I'd certainly want to be able to
listen to my music CDs for that sort of time-span. In fact, with the number
of CDs I have, if I listened to a couple a week, it'd take 20 years :-)
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