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I think the term burner came because of using a laser to physically burn
the digital information in to the disk, although I believe that only
applies to certain devices, technically, although that's what everyone
seems to call them.
At 04:01 PM 8/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
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>> I think there might be a confusion of terms here. To me a "burner" is a
>> computer peripheral, and an external burner is one that connects by
cable to
>> a USB, parallel, or Firewire port on the computer instead of needing to be
>> installed inside the case.
>
>I'm pretty sure that the term burner is just a slang term possibly coined by
>someone in the recording industry because they thought that it sounded cool.
>
>Technically any device that is capable of creating a CD with something on it
>from a blank CD could be called a burner. I'm not sure and I'd have to check
>with my daughter, but there may be professional equipment capable of
making or
>"burning" an audio CD from a digital source such as a DAT independent of the
>need for a computer.
>
>But I don't think that I have ever seen a manufacture use the term "burner"
>either on the box it came in or on the unit itself. CD Writer also really
can't
>be used generically because it is a trademark name of HP's drive.
>
>Even CNET has copped out listing them as CDR/CDRW drives. It doesn't make
>sense. They should have been called CD writable and CD re-writable. In
one the
>"R" stands for "Recordable", in the other it stands for "Re" followed by
>Writable. I would have named them CDWR and CDW thus keeping the term
"writable"
>constant. Also in computer terms, one never "records" to a drive. You
write to
>it.
>
>It is only in audio that the term recordable is used.
>
>Lawrence
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