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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting 1.5 MB on a standard 880K floppy without compression
Message-ID: <3669@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 28 Mar 89 12:33:59 GMT
References: <3631@sugar.hackercorp.com> <94323@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <96103@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <96103@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> >What about GCR?

> It writes the same number of bauds as MFM so no net gain. 

The one Apple uses on the ][ does, maybe, but there are denser GCR codes
available and they're supposed to be more resistant to noise than MFM and
RLL.
-- 
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