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- From: worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Double Density on the Draco
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- Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:10:52 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- : I have good hopes that the newer Amigas to be revealed in March will have
- : this fixed. All in time. My question is, will this new setup with the
- : standard PC High Density floppies be able to auto-detect disks on the Amiga
- : still, or will we lost that feature? Other than the 'clicking' which can
- : be turned off, this feature is unique and helpful (I believe) on the Amiga!
-
- Nope, it is not unique. The Mac does this and so do many Unix workstations.
- Even PCs can do it now - look at MSBackup as supplied with MS-DOS 6.x. I
- think Windows 95 detects disk changes as well.
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- Ben Hutchings, student. Finger me on worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk for various info.
- email: benjamin.hutchings@worc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/
- Users of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your Micro$oft software
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