I have a first-edition copy of "Compact Disc-Interactive: A Designer's Overview" as a result of a job interview in 1988 that didn't pan out. Looking through it now, one interesting tidbit is that the embedded "CD-RTOS" operating system was based on OS-9 for the 68000.
They also wanted to introduce a new buzzword: "hyper-media" (the hyphen is theirs, not mine). Choice quote: "The concept of hyper-media could have been invented to describe CD-I. Its origins lie in the notion of hyper-text, a term coined by computer guru Ted Nelson in 1965 as a method of linking related bodies of information to allow the user to browse through different databases randomly."
They also wanted to introduce a new buzzword: "hyper-media" (the hyphen is theirs, not mine). Choice quote: "The concept of hyper-media could have been invented to describe CD-I. Its origins lie in the notion of hyper-text, a term coined by computer guru Ted Nelson in 1965 as a method of linking related bodies of information to allow the user to browse through different databases randomly."