[geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?

Ken Hansen geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 26 21:50:40 CST 2001


1x CD-ROMs operate/transfer data at 150 Kb/s, don't they? (4x are 600
Kb/s, right?)

Why would a full straight transfer take more bandwidth than that?

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?


> Nearly uncompressed audio is clearly too much to try to stream
around a 10mbit
> network.  Also, if such quality is to be undertaken for storage, one
must also
> ask how to acurately reproduce the sound (I can't believe I just
said that.  I,
> of course, mean how to pleasantly reproduce the sound).





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