[net.micro.6809] CD-ROMs to use 68000 and OS9

knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) (04/18/86)

[originally posted Apr 7; reposted due to netnews foulups]

Phillips, Sony, and Microware (a not-quite-as-big SW
house in Iowa that created/es OS9) have agreed on a
standard for CD-ROM peripherals.
The internal controller will be a 68000 running
OS9/68K, presumably out of ROM (or booted from each
CD disk maybe?).

This was revealed in the latest MOTD, the newsletter
of the National OS9 Users' Group.

I don't know what percentage of CD-ROM machines this
scheme will cover -- I think there are already some
boxes out there.

	mike k
	
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