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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.032938.446@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:29:38 GMT
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In article <6932@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>In <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:

>Sure... Macintoshes have heaps of deficiencies... lack of DMA (except on IIfx)
>strange floppy format (unless you get a SuperDrive)... etc etc.

Strange?  What is strange about the 800K floppy format?  Are you defining
strange as "Not compatible with the IBM-PC"?   You want strange, take a look
at those 880K disks the mac was originally scheduled to get.

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