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From: KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk (Kevin Purcell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 12:16:16 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Sep 90 16:31:58 GMT Gert Kanis (gert@UUCP.TARGON) said:

>In article <7583@star.cs.vu.nl> raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) writes:
>>phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
>>[stuff about 800k or 720k drives]
>>This was not a typo. We have sacrificed 160K to be compatible with
>>PCs, Atari's and Macs.

Macs also come with 800k disks (non-standard format) are these cut down to
720k too in Minix or are they standard HFS disks?
[more deleted]
>
>During the porting of Minix to the Amiga and the Mac care was taken to
>not to create yet another variant. So at the moment we live with PC disks
>and M68000 disks  so to speak.   (Does the Sparc have floppies ?).

Yes, 1.44Mbyte floppies

>Gert Kanis      gert@targon.UUCP

Do you think migration towards 1.44Mbyte floppies (HDs) might be sensible
given the increasing useage of these disk on a wide range of machines?

Kevin Purcell          | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
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