METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A CD-ROM DISC FOR USE WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS

摘要

Method and apparatus for producing a single compact disk CD-ROM type is using on computers having unrelated operating systems or for multi-media platforms, specifically, wherein the two different operating systems are HFS (hierarchical file system) (11) used by Macintosh computers and MS-DOS (13) which is the operating system used by IBM and compatible personal computers. The compact disc obtained is in the ISO 9660 (25) which is the standard ISO format describing a logical organization of data on a CD-ROM (CD-ROM). This way it is possible, for example, to store two versions of a program on the same CD-ROM, one for operation on Macintosh computers and other computers on IBM PC and compatible computers . This allows data suppliers to be stored on a disk formatted according to the ISO 9660 standard to send said data to the directors of the compact disc on a single magnetic medium such as a disc cartridge removable Bernoulli (17) in the form of a single operating system distribution.