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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <12406@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 89 21:49:31 GMT
References: <346@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1523@ndmath.UUCP> <514@morgoth.UUCP>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <514@morgoth.UUCP> steve@morgoth.UUCP (Steve Hall) writes:
>...I can go out and have 1000 CDs made
>for about $3 a piece (and I have!).  I would imagine that to put data on a CD
>would cost about the same.
     From what I understand (I read this somewhere...) storing digital sound
is actually a lot cheaper for one major reason: if you have a minor glitch
in a sound CD - as you do in lots of CDs - it doesn't matter, because the
resulting sound difference is so small as to be inaudible. However, you can
imagine what a bad byte or three would do in an executable, or even a text
file. These errors can be prevented and/or stripped out, but it brings your
cost per CD up a lot (I don't know how much).
                                                         - R'ykandar.

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