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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: floppies and ansi info
Message-ID: <39560@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 88 17:34:00 GMT
References: <973@pur-phy>
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In article <973@pur-phy> (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes:
> Two questions or those in the know.
> 1) Why do the floppies for the amiga have 880K formatted capacities
> when so many others have 720K ? How about the 1.4M floppy drives (say
> by fujitsu) - can we install them and get 1.4M storage.

Because the Amiga squeezes sectors side by side on each track and get 11
512 byte sectors per track as opposed to 9 512K sectors ala MS-DOS. No
1.44 M drives will NOT work on an Amiga, they require a different Data
clock rate.

>2) Where can I find the complete listing of ansi commands supported
>by the con: device? The Amigados manual only seems to have a subset
>- trying to work on a better termcap for uw don't ya know.

The Rom Kernel Manual (White Vol 1, A-W Vol Devices,...) Look under 
console.device. They are described completely. Note that the console
device may not be a full ANSI 3.64 implementation.


--Chuck McManis
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