Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!prle!prles2!cst!meulenbr From: meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives) Keywords: floppy 68000 compatibility Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 06:06:25 GMT References: <1990Sep17.115240.16619@warwick.ac.uk> <7583@star.cs.vu.nl> <1453@targon.UUCP> <1990Sep19.074613.27826@warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@prles2.prl.philips.nl Lines: 16 phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes: > 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. Yes they are. PC and 68000 filesystems are not compatible. However, the 68000 filesystems are compatible (that is: the amiga can use filesystems created on the ST and vice versa. I think that these can be used on the mac as well, but I'm not that familiar with the internals of the mac version.) -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcsun!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)