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Old 27-02-2009, 08:43 AM
Dennis
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From the Software Bisque website:

“The RealSky data was created using 512 byte sectors on the 18 CD-ROMs. This format was chosen to save space because there are literally a million files spread over the 18 CD's, actually 1.3 million files to be exact. When RealSkyView was written by Software Bisque many years ago, to access this data large hard drives were either non existent or cost prohibitive for most at best This of course has now changed for the better.”

I think that the above format seems to take a long time to read? On my computer, it takes a long time for the contents of the CD to display.

Cheers

Dennis
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