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From: storkamp@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Storkamp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
Keywords: floppy 68000 compatibility
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.173759.24722@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 17:37:59 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.115240.16619@warwick.ac.uk> <7583@star.cs.vu.nl> <1453@targon.UUCP> <1990Sep19.074613.27826@warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: storkamp@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Storkamp)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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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.

I don't know about the Macs, but I can take any DD 3 1/5" disk from
a PC and read/edit text files with no problem on my Atari.
ybet sra eon twspaep dnit xe tifel!s: )-
I doubt if your realy looking for object code compatibility anyway.

-Mark Storkamp