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by astrodust 1050 days ago
Widely, but not exclusively used. Some big vendors at the time that made things like library indexes and legal references used their own completely wacky in-house formats that required lots of fiddling with device drivers. They'd often only work with a handful of CD-ROM devices as well, meaning you're stuck with your $2000 single-speed top-loading NEC drive for eternity.

High Sierra won out, it was the logocal winner, and there was, thankfully, no standards war like with HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray.