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Glossary

Finalization—Finalization is the permanent closing of the writing procedure on a

CD. After finalization, it cannot be written to, regardless of whether it was pro-

duced as a single-session or a multi-session CD.

Green Book—A book of CD Interactive (CD-I) standards published by Philips and

Sony in 1986.

High Sierra—The forerunner of today's ISO Standard 9660. It was published in

1986. With the passage of time it has lost its significance.

Hybrid Type CD—A CD-ROM disc storing "two different platforms of software" for

Windows and Macintosh etc.

Image—The term "image" describes all edited data that will later be located on a

CD. The creation of an image file is known as premastering.

ISO 9660—ISO Standard 9660 describes the construction of a CD-ROM, so that it

may be read and processed by different types of operating systems.

Joliet—This supplement to the standards comes from Microsoft and is supported

by Windows 95 and Windows NT. The CDs that are created under this standard are

in conformity with ISO 9660, which allows long file names based on Unicode, in

additional directory structures.

Mixed Mode-CD—Music and computer data are stored on one CD with this type

of CD. The computer data are generally located on track 1 and audio data are

located in the ensuing tracks.

Multi-Session-CD—A CD which is written in several sequential sessions is known

as a multi-session CD.

On-The-Fly—A process for burning data onto a CD-R. There are two different

methods of doing this. With the classical and older method, all of the data which

is to be recorded onto the CD is first stored in a buffer, in a large file known as an

image file. From there, the data is copied or burned onto the CD-R. In contrast to

this, the method known as On-The-Fly transfers the data directly from its original

memory location on a hard drive onto the CD-R.

Orange Book—The Orange Book is a physical format of recordable CD announced

in 1989 by Philips and Sony. The Orange Book describes CD-MO in part-I and CD-R

in part-II. Later on part-II was updated. In 1994, version-II was announced for the

CD-ROM and its double speed type. In 1996, the standards for phase change opti-

cal disc; rewritable CD (CD-RW) was added as part-III.

Photo-CD—A CD format and system devised by Eastman Kodak to record digi-

tized photograph data.

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