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From: raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions
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Date: 17 Sep 90 13:53:16 GMT
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phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:

> 1) Are there any known problems with any particular revisions of the Amiga.
>    eg. with/without 1meg chip ram

No.

> 2) In the announcement posting it was stated that the Amiga version would
>    work either on one or two 720K drives.
>                              ^^^^
>               The Amiga uses 880K drives, or has this now been sacrificed for
>    compatibility with PC drives, and mac drives? Or was this, hopefully, a
>    typo.

This was not a typo. We have sacrificed 160K to be compatible with
PCs, Atari's and Macs.

>Given the relative features of the amiga version -
>NO HARD DRIVES, NO RS232 Terminal Support, NO Concurrent Users - I don't
>see how PH can justify giving it a 1.5 label and chargeing 1.5 prices for it.

I have to admit that we don't have hard drive support, but we DO support
RS232 and concurrent users just as the other versions do.

	-Raymond.