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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emulator Mechanics
Message-ID: <19886@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 23:38:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.093149.18707@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19749@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar12.011418.24768@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19792@cbmvax.commodore.com> <45551@ut-emx.uucp>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <45551@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <19792@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>>This is apparently why Mac's don't generally talk to MS-DOS disks via an
>>alternate filesystem like CrossDOS or MSH, but instead use a user program for 
>>the conversion, along the lines of the old PC Utilities.  

>Well, I don't really know what a "filesystem" is, 

Well, that's exactly what a filesystem is.  In the normal AmigaOS or UNIX
usage, the filesystem is the program that determines the logical format of
files, directories, etc. out on the disk.  In most cases, underneath the
filesystem is a device driver, which knows about the specific piece of
hardware you have your files mounted on.  

>but there are a couple of programs (INITs) that let you mount DOS disks 
>directly to the desktop.  

I guess my mistake was asking about these things in Mac groups, rather than
here in an Amiga group.  I'm actually after something like this for the Mac
I use in the lab.  This Mac is an integral part of a logic analyzer setup
we have here.  And it can dump nice, detailed timing results to disk.  The
problem is that I currently have no reasonable way to get data into and out
of this Mac, other than via floppy.  Everything in engineering speaks Ethernet,
even a few of the PCs, but I haven't convinced anyone to spring for a Mac 
Ethernet card, and wouldn't really no where to begin looking for one.  But a
standard filesystem of some kind, something that can be read by the Mac and
the Amiga, would be one solution.  Something like CrossDOS or MSH for the Mac
would be perfect.

>(By the way, Dave, I'm really impressed with the support you provide here.)

Well, someone's got to support these things.  C= doesn't manage the level
of marketing that Apple does, so I figure a little extra on the technical
side, at least when I have time, is a good idea.


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