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From: phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
Keywords: floppy 68000 compatibility
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Date: 19 Sep 90 07:46:13 GMT
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In article <1453@targon.UUCP> gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) writes:
>In article <7583@star.cs.vu.nl> raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) writes:
>>
>>This was not a typo. We have sacrificed 160K to be compatible with
>>PCs, Atari's and Macs.
>>
>
>Disks are and are not the same between the PC's and the 68000's .
>They are essentially the same physical format  i.e. 80 tracks of 9 sectors.
>But unfortunely the way things are written is different  i.e. byte ordering.


   So what you are saying is that although the amiga 880K capacity has been
sacrificed down to 720K to maintain compatibility they are NOT compatible
in any real sense of the word.


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