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> Also 4 incompatible CD interfaces on the sound cards doesn't bode well. Yeah, certainly in the beginning CD-ROM drives were marketed as a cornerstone to brin
by RetroTechie 3y ago
> Also 4 incompatible CD interfaces on the sound cards doesn't bode well.
Yeah, certainly in the beginning CD-ROM drives were marketed as a cornerstone to bring PC's into the "multimedia" age.
And thus eg. bundled with an audio card that doubled as a CD drive controller.
Only when they were more common, things like OSes, office suites etc came on CD by default.
Oh and... encyclopedia. :-)
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> bring PC's into the "multimedia" age Yep, office drones don't need this fancy-shmancy multimeedeeaa => no sound card => no CD interface. Only when ATAPI became the standard (and MultiI/O became integrated) the support for the CD drives come to systems without a soundcard. > Oh and... encyclopedia. :-) That's multimedia.
- lizknope 3y agoI got my first x86 PC in August 1994. It came with a 2X CD-ROM drive with the brand new ATAPI / IDE interface. I wanted to install Linux from CD but it was too new to have Linux support so I ended up using 10 floppies to install each Slackware disk set, back to the computer lab for the next set, and repeat.