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    22-Feb-91  18:24:50
Sb: #9555-High Sierra CDROM fmts
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: PaulSeniura 76476,464

Paul - yes, the High Sierra format has been on CDROM forum for years... but
it's been superceded by the ISO9660 format since then.

I don't see any reason why SCSI CDROM drives won't physically work on any
system.  And I think MW has a file manager, or one could be written, or for
that matter, special programs could be written.

But as must be pointed out to most computer owners, CDROM discs are rarely
machine-independent.  That is, the file system is standard, but the programs
and data on the disc are _not_ in any "standard" format yet.

That's why you generally can't swap discs between Macs and IBMs, and you can't
use them in Amigas, KMAs, CoCos, etc.

Unless... you create your own, or decode the format of the data on one, or get
the authoring company to port their retrieval engine (software) to your
machine.   - kev