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From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AE 1.6 MB 3.5" drive
Message-ID: <536@fawlty.towers.oz>
Date: 3 Dec 90 04:49:49 GMT
References: <215@generic.UUCP> <1990Nov26.043423.15402@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: johnmac@fawlty.ips.oz (John MacLean)
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In article <1990Nov26.043423.15402@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rtyu@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Rafael T Yu) writes:
>   Having 1.6meg of storage capacity on a single HD disk on a GS is more
>convenient than 1.44meg.  And as I said before 1.44meg are standard on the 
>Mac and IBM world but not on the GS.  Now, how exactly AE came up with 1.6-meg
>format, I don't know, but I really like what they did.
>                      Rafael Yu
I cannot agree with this.
Use of the 1.44 Meg format would mean that AE would have to provide a
GS/OS device driver that would provide access to IBM/Mac disks with this
format.
You then have the potential to add FSTs for these formats, and to write
simple conversion programs if Apple never produces the goods.
These advantages far outweigh an extra 156K per disk.
It may be nice to have a 1.6meg driver, but this needs to be a secondary
consideration.
John MacLean.
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