a company decides to sell the game on a cd rom instead of many floppy disks ,state 3 reasons why they should do this?
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How old is your textbook? Just about no one, especially people in the game business, uses floppy disks anymore. In fact, I don't know any that use CDs (or call them CD ROMs) anymore. Just about everything is on DVDs.
but there must be any reason why people use cd rom instead of floppy disk plz...anyone can give me the exact answer soo plz give me as soon as possible...
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Look at the chart.
If one floppy disk can hold 1.44 MB of information, and a CDROM can hold 650 MB of information, why would one choose CDROMs instead of floppies??
Now look at what DVDs can hold. Capacities are expressed in GB instead of MB. Wow!!
Look at the chart.
If one floppy disk can hold 1.44 MB of information, and a CDROM can hold 650 MB of information, why would one choose CDROMs instead of floppies??
Now look at what DVDs can hold. Capacities are expressed in GB instead of MB. Wow!!
1. Capacity
A floppy disk (the latest kind, somewhere in the 1980's) can hold 1.4 Mb of data/information, while a cd-rom can hold between 650 to 700 Mb of data. So the capacity is roughly 50 times more.
2. durability
A floppy disk is based on magnetic medium. If you ever have a chance to dismantle one, you will see that all there is, is a small round circular paper thin film that spins. Over time, like a few months of heavy use, there may easily be physical wear and tear and become unreliable.
A CD-rom is based on optical properties, and the head does not get real close to the reading head, so there is no physical deterioration.
3. Cost of production
It costs more to produce a game on a floppy (manual) than to burn it on a CD-ROM (automated). After all, like Ms Sue mentioned, most computers cannot read floppies any more.
A floppy disk (the latest kind, somewhere in the 1980's) can hold 1.4 Mb of data/information, while a cd-rom can hold between 650 to 700 Mb of data. So the capacity is roughly 50 times more.
2. durability
A floppy disk is based on magnetic medium. If you ever have a chance to dismantle one, you will see that all there is, is a small round circular paper thin film that spins. Over time, like a few months of heavy use, there may easily be physical wear and tear and become unreliable.
A CD-rom is based on optical properties, and the head does not get real close to the reading head, so there is no physical deterioration.
3. Cost of production
It costs more to produce a game on a floppy (manual) than to burn it on a CD-ROM (automated). After all, like Ms Sue mentioned, most computers cannot read floppies any more.
Sorry, it was Writeacher who mentioned about the obsolescence of the floppies.
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