Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!took.dec.com!mattioli 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 Lines: 29 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Mattioli "The Guy with the Bumpy Watch" (DEC E-NET) TOOK::MATTIOLI (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!TOOK.dec.com!MATTIOLI (ARPA) MATTIOLI@TOOK.dec.com MATTIOLI%TOOK.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com (US MAIL) John Mattioli 550 King St. LKG2-2/BB9 Littleton, Ma. 01460