Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ukma!phoenix 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) Organization: El'n'tk National Spaceport, Mission Control Lines: 17 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. -- | "Signature V1.2.1.2..." | phoenix@ms.uky.edu | phoenix@ukma.bitnet | | "Got enough addresses, bub?" | CIS 72406,370 | PLink: Skywise | | "Alms! Alms! Laser printers for the poor!" | QLink: Bearclaw |