Compact Disc—Read-Only Memory
- Compact Disc—Read-Only Memory
Abbreviated CD-ROM. A high-capacity, optical storage device that uses the same technology used to make ordinary music discs to store large amounts of information. A single 4.72-inch disc can hold up to 650MB.
CD-ROMs are important components of multimedia applications. They are also used to store encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other large reference works, as well as libraries of fonts and clip art for desktop publishing. CD-ROMs have replaced floppy disks as the distribution mechanism for software packages, including network operating systems and large applications; you can load the whole package from a single compact disc, and you can load an operating system from a set of discs.
A CD-ROM uses the constant linear velocity data encoding scheme to store information in a single, spiral track, divided into many equal-length segments. To read data, the CD-ROM disk drive must increase the rotational speed as the read head gets closer to the center of the disk and must decrease as the head moves back out.
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