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From: mattioli@took.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: questions about cdrom
Message-ID: <3977@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 9 Aug 89 19:46:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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	I'm interested in CDROM access on my pc and have some questions I'd like
answerd (if somebody could please help): 

	1. I'm told that the specific drive I'm looking at must hook up to an
xt, at, or 386 machine, but not a regular pc.  Why is this?  I've added a hard
disk to my regular pc, does this make the cd drive useable on my machine? 

	2. Currently, Microsoft has published the Microsoft Programmers Library
which contains a great deal of their documentation all on one cd.  If, for
example, a new version of the C compiler is released, what can one expect to pay
for a new CDROM? 

	3. Do any of the unix style operating systems have device drivers for
CDROM drives? 

	Thanks for any help that is available. 
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