<story><title>Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sn_master</author><text>A year or so ago I made a post on reddit&amp;#x2F;TIL that referenced CD-R and it got deleted by a mod because &amp;quot;CD-R is not a known thing&amp;quot; or something like that. The mod must&amp;#x27;ve been too young to ever used a CD-R. That was kind of shocking to me, but then I haven&amp;#x27;t used CD-R myself in almost a decade.</text></comment>
<story><title>Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nu11ptr</author><text>I still recall very well how frustrating &amp;quot;buffer under-runs&amp;quot; were...in a day and an age when we really need a real-time OS, but we simply weren&amp;#x27;t running them.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t decide if I love this doc or if it gives me post traumatic stress. This is another subject I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about in years as it has faded out, but having dealt with all the different permutations of CD writable I had forgotten just how many different variations there actually were, and how long the industry kept trying to improve the tech.</text></comment>