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- From: img4@pcbied.ott.aber.ac.uk (Ian Gledhill)
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- Subject: Re: Amigaemu.zip
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 18:50:47 GMT
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- In article <1996Feb3.173515.2216@signus.demon.co.uk> David Firth <david@signus.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- > Personally, I stopped using the Amigas custom format when I found out
- > it was incompatible with everything else.
-
- Tell me, how long have you needed a straight jacket for?
-
- If we all had that attitude, I'd be using a single-sided, low density
- 5 1/4" disk (if not a tape deck!), 'just so's it'd be more compatible'.
-
- I personally think that the Amiga having more disk space is something
- we SHOULD be proud of... we Amiga owners have the OPTION of downgrading
- or disk system to MS-DOS 720K if we like, or we can use a superior and
- more efficient disk system.
-
- > Today, there is no excuse
- > for making a floppy disk physically incompatible at the sector level
- > with the other manufacturers.
-
- Then what the heck are you telling Amiga owners for? Sorry, but Amigas
- are compatible with PC's (they can read/write PC disks) but PC's can't
- read/write Amiga disks. Therefore PC's are the incompatible ones, not
- Amigas! Go and e-mail I.B.M., I'm sure they'd listen! :-)
-
- > IMHO I think that the Amiga should have
- > had the same sector level format (i.e. 720K) and then implemented
- > the FFS on top.
-
- Oh, sure. Stuff progress. Progress is in its very nature incompatible.
-
- > Having incompatible disks is not something Amiga
- > owners should be proud of, instead concentrate on the graphics
- > capability :-)
-
- Why concentrate on something other than what you've already got
- superior to other systems?
-
- > My solution was to use the the PC: driver exclusively for my own
- > work. Of coure you have to limit yourself to the 8.3 filenames :-(
-
- And do you think we shouldn't be proud of having proper filenames,
- too?
-
- > and a slightly lower disk capacity but that was a small price for
- > the increased compatibility.
-
- Comaptibility with PC's? Way I see it is this: Amiga owners have
- the option of either system. Therefore it is 100% better, as it
- is EVERYTHING AND MORE than the PeeCee system!
-
- You realise if everyone else had your attitude, the Amiga would be
- a 'compatible' PC!
-
-
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