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echo: arcade_games
to: ROB VASQUEZ
from: AARON STROUD
date: 1997-01-02 19:58:00
subject: CDROMS` SPEED

AS> Keep in mind though, that the DVD drives are in the area of 20 speed 
drives
AS> But, as everyone noticed, that guy was a total nit wit.
   
 RV> But still, 20 speed is only 3 megs a second......very slow compared to 
the
 RV> hundreds of megs a second that ROM chips use. Which is faster, loading a
 RV> game out of memory, or loading it off your CDROM? 
I know, I was merely stating the DVD's speed. Did you know that Samsung has 
now made a gigadram chip? 30 nanos!
Now, get one of those and just load the CD into RAM!
 
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