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From: c164-1bj@cordelia.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 1.6 meg drives and the Amiga
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 01:04:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 01:04:15 1987
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The elation in switching from Apple 143K disks to Amiga 880K disks has now
worn off, and I am once again becoming greedy.

I want the 1.6 meg high-density microfloppies.

Apple's new Macs are socketed for the new IWM chip that will support the 1.6
meg disks, and another company that makes half of a personal computer with
half of an operating system actually comes with the 1.6 meg disks.

The acceptance of the format by the aforementioned behemoths will certainly
result in massive price reduction on both the drives and the media in about a
year.  Just as Jay Miner anticipated the cheap RAM chips, I hope Commodore has
anticipated the megafloppy and has been at least keeping it in mind when
working on new versions of the hardware and (hint) operating system.

Question for AmigaDOS Gurus: (Is that last word a noun or a verb??!)
	How hard would it be to adapt the software and the (tricky part) disk
	interface to facilitate the megafloppy?  I know AmigaDOS supports
	generalized devices, so that shouldn't be the tough part.

	*&Jonathan Dubman
	Busy Berkeley CS student with a semantic analyzer due Wednesday