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- From: farren@shore.net (farren user)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Amigaemu.zip
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 11:48:40 -0500
- Organization: Focus Studios
- Message-ID: <4fl6l8$o1g@northshore.shore.net>
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- eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw) writes:
-
- >The mac reads & writes floppies much faster than a PeeCee.
-
- Wrong. The read/write speed of a floppy is determined almost entirely by
- the rotational speed of the disk, which is the same on Macs and PCs.
- Old double-density Mac disks rotated at variable speed, to be sure, but
- the PC-compatible formats didn't.
-
- >MOST new disks end up bad after only a couple uses.
-
- Wrong. I've got floppy disks which are over ten years old, have been used
- over and over again, and still work perfectly. I've got stacks of brand-new
- diskettes that work perfectly as sneaker-net transfer disks between two
- systems at work, and which have been reused several hundred times without
- failure. *Most* new diskettes are good for many uses, if they aren't,
- they're bad diskettes.
-
- >PC drives are still only 360RPM because if they made them faster,
- >they wouldn't work with most versions of M$-DO$.
-
- Wrong. PC drives are 360 RPM because that's the designed-in speed of the
- disk drive. Modern disk drives don't even let you adjust this speed. It
- has little or nothing to do with "not working with most versions of MS-DOS".
-
- Someone else said:
- >>Do you even know what you're talking about?
-
- And the answer, it appears, is "No."
-
- >I seriously doubt [Amiga HD drive speed limitation] has anything to do
- >with the chip in there.
-
- Then you would be (as expected) wrong.
-
- Haven't seen such a bunch of unmitigated crap regarding floppy disks since
- the "black cases are the only ones that work" stuff back in '86...
-
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