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From: edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Questions (Floppy drives)
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.054841.2428@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 21 Sep 90 05:48:41 GMT
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KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk (Kevin Purcell) writes:

>On Tue, 18 Sep 90 16:31:58 GMT Gert Kanis (gert@UUCP.TARGON) said:

>>In article <7583@star.cs.vu.nl> raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) writes:
>>>phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
>>>[stuff about 800k or 720k drives]
>>>This was not a typo. We have sacrificed 160K to be compatible with
>>>PCs, Atari's and Macs.

>Macs also come with 800k disks (non-standard format) are these cut down to
>720k too in Minix or are they standard HFS disks?
>[more deleted]
>>
>>During the porting of Minix to the Amiga and the Mac care was taken to
>>not to create yet another variant. So at the moment we live with PC disks
>>and M68000 disks  so to speak.   (Does the Sparc have floppies ?).

>Yes, 1.44Mbyte floppies

>>Gert Kanis      gert@targon.UUCP

>Do you think migration towards 1.44Mbyte floppies (HDs) might be sensible
>given the increasing useage of these disk on a wide range of machines?
definitely not.  Unless my 880k drive can read your 1.44Mb disks :-)

I expect your 1.44Mb drive _will_ read my 880k disks, but why alienate
all the atari and amiga and XT and etc  owners by using 1.44Mb disks.

Wait until everyone has 1.44Mb disks, and then I'll re-consider.

The whole idea of making the formats compatible would be lost.

rik.

>Kevin Purcell          | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
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