On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Tim wrote:
On that note, it always amazed me that data CDs were ever possible. For a start, you can't just lose a bit in your data (or program) and carry on as if nothing happened, it all has to be precisely correct, and audio CDs are continually working through playback errors, all the time the disc is playing. Checksums can say the data is wrong, but if there's more than one bit wrong, you couldn't work out what the error actually was. With audio, you can make a guess, to fit a missing value between
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