## CD-ROMs (in short: None of this system are available)

Every now and then we are asked for a CD-ROM of this archive; so far there are none available.

Reasons for this are multiple, not the least of them being our unwillingess to do the effort of publishing such a set. Arranging the publishing on this kind of directly government funded system is not so easy in legal wise when it comes to direct money making as of selling those CD-ROMs... Also it doesn't too well fit to our main business idea of providing all the WAN network services the Academic and Research community needs. Anyway, we are thinking about it, sometimes...

On technical side: We have now circa 16 GB of material in the archive. With 600MB per CD-ROM that would do roughly 30 CD-ROMs. We doubt there would be people willing to buy such a huge set of CD-ROMS of which they most propably will want under 10% in any case.

        Some questimates:		Note	disk count	actual usage
    	/pub/amiga		(1)	 3 disks	 2.3
    	/pub/archive (newsgroup(s)) (2)	 1 disk		 0.95
    	/pub/crypt		(3)	 1 disk		 0.05
    	/pub/gnu		(4)	 1 disk		 0.9
    	/pub/mac		(5)	 1 disk		 0.85
    	/pub/msdos (and os2+win-nt) (6)	 4 disks	 3.9
    	/pub/OS/Linux		(7)	 2 disks	 1.2
    	/pub/pics		(8)	 2 disks	 1.8
    	/pub/unix		(8)	 3 disks	 2.6
    	/pub/X11		(8)	 2 disks	 1.5
    Sums:	   8.9 GB			18 disks	14.9
    	ca. 7 GB not covered here

    Notes:
    	1) There are multiple CD-ROMS of Amiga.  We have same files
    	   online, that most of those contain.
    	2) There are several sources of usenet newsgroups archived on
    	   CD-ROMs.  Ask UUNET Technologies, and/or EurOpen/EUnet.
    	3) /pub/crypt/* et.al. are material that are under US munitions
    	   control laws (yes, MILITARY SECRETS!), and thus once sent
    	   to US, they must not be sent out without horrendous hazzle
    	   of paperwork.  That kind of disk must primarily be available
    	   from the outside of the US...
    	4) Free Software Foundation sells also a CD-ROM, buy that,
    	   and support the developement of free software!  More info:
    	   gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu  ( See  /pub/gnu/GNUinfo/ORDERS* )
    	7) There are several more or less commercial Linux CD-ROMs.
    	8) Of these categories there undoubtly are CD-ROMs available,
    	   but sources are unknown.  Ask your local shops...
    	9) The number of files increases continuously, we are going to
    	   go well beoynd 30GB at least