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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 17:19:05 GMT
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On Wed, 19 Sep 90 11:28:54 GMT Raymond Michiels (raymond@NL.VU.CS) said:

>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! If that isn't compatible, then
>what is?  The only thing is not (yet) compatible is the PC and 68000
>file systems, but since they all use the same physical format you can
>easily exchange data between them by using tar(1) or something similar.
>If we would have use the original Amiga format this would not have been
>possible.
>
>	-Raymond.

Is this true of the Mac disk on older Macs? Those that use the IWM chip
to get 800k per drive (GCR type encoding) rather than the newer 1.4Mbyte
disks that can read all formats?


Kevin Purcell          | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
Surface Science,       |
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Liverpool L69 3BX      | how the Mac works and hard if you don't. -- Dan Allen