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From: raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
Keywords: floppy 68000 compatibility
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Date: 20 Sep 90 09:03:18 GMT
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archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) writes:

>raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) writes:

>>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.

I shouldn't have taken the Mac as an example, sorry for that. I should have
said that the Atari and Amiga disks + binaries are compatible.
(I have actually tried this.)

Sorry for the confusion.

        -Raymond.