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From: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Was: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request
Summary: Guess what? Raw floppies already exist!
Message-ID: <471@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 26 May 89 14:22:24 GMT
References: <8905160628.AA06371@jade.berkeley.edu> <3833@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In article <3833@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Even better, isn't it about time AmigaDOS borrowed a leaf from UNIX' book
> and included raw disk device drivers? RDF0: would be DF0: as a single 880K
> file. RHD0: would be HD0:, similarly allocated.

Already exists. Look on an archive site for RDF:. Works with any Exec
device that looks enough like trackdisk.

> Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
> ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com  'U`

-Olaf Seibert (using Jan's account)