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CD-ROM/XA

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:37 pm

Short for CD-ROM/eXtended Architecture, a specification developed by Sony, Phillips and Microsoft that enables many different types of data — audio, video, compressed video, and graphics — to be stored on a single CD-ROM.

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