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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
Keywords: floppy 68000 compatibility
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Date: 19 Sep 90 14:24:48 GMT
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raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) writes:

>But they are! Gert was (probably) talking about the difference between
>the PC and ST version. The Amiga, Atari and Mac versions are binary
>compatible: you can edit and compile a program on a Mac, take out the
>floppy, mount it on an Amiga and run it!

This is WRONG.  The binaries between the Mac and the Amiga and
Atari ARE compatable, but the disks are not.  You can't 
mount a floppy formatted with another version of MINIX on the Macintosh
version.

Joe Pickert