Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!
Lieven Marchand (mal@bewoner.dma.be)
15 Sep 1998 21:52:19 -0000
Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, David Mandala wrote:
> > The portable recordable Minidisk as I understand its technology is a lossy
> > hardware compression which works for audio but it would be tossing away
> > data. I suspect it would not work.
> Yes, but the actual data on the disk is lossless (error corrected) digital. If
> Sony would add a digital data input/output, it would work Since MD compresses
> sound to 1/6th, one MD can store about 110 MB of uncompressed raw data.
>
> Besides, for CD-ROM they use stronger error correction than for CD-DA, because
> it's worse to lose data than to hear a bit of noise or a scratch.
>
> [*] Didn't I read some time ago they were planning to do that? Or are they
> pushing DAT and AIC for backup only?
They already did. I saw a review of a MD for backup in a trade rag
some time ago (DataNews I think). They found it too slow to be useful.
Lieven
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