Cdrom is a small/lightweight CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive controlling utility. It supports several features like automatic mounting/unmounting , speed control, drive capability, CD status, and more. Although it was not written for this purpose, it is similar to a CD based eject program.
cdrom is a small C utility for controlling the CD-ROM drive for GNU/Linux. It automatically mounts and unmounts the devices when used.
Compact Disk, Read Only Memory. A storage media often used to distribute software and/or documentation.
Compact Disk Read Only Memory - a high capacity information storage medium. Generally used for music or software.
cdrom are similar to music CDs and are designed to store large amounts of digital data. A computer software program allows the user to access a cdrom database interactively. This data may be printed or downloaded to a floppy disc.
Short for Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storing large amounts of data -- up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes). A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 text pages. CD-ROMs are particularly well-suited to information that requires large storage capacity. This includes color large software applications, graphics, sound, and especially video.
1. A type of drive found in most computers that is used to read both audio and data CDs. A CDROM drive can be external but is usually installed internally. 2. A CD for a computer.
Compact Disk Read Only Memory, the CD drive is sometimes called this as well.
Read-only media that holds 650 MB of data. It's generally accepted as the easiest way to distribute software. CD-ROM drives can also read music CDs even though they are in a different format than CD-ROM media.
a Compact Disk Read Only Memory
a read-only medium, therefore any part of the filesystem that has to be written to, must be placed on some other medium - hard disk, RAM, floppy etc
a safe and reliable backup medium and is easy to carry around
a write-once, read-many times medium
a type of storage medium for digital cameras
Compact Disc Read Only Memory; a compact disc that is read by a computer; in libraries they contain information, usually an encyclopedia, a reference book, or an index