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- From: Andy@lando.demon.co.uk (Andrew Oland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 15 Apr 96 09:56:45 +0000
- Message-ID: <1080.6679T596T2266@lando.demon.co.uk>
- References: <jsheehyDpt9K9.7KF@netcom.com>
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- On 13-Apr-96 17:21:45, John Sheehy wrote about Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?,
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- >>And then
- >>there is the thing about formatting disks...
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- JS> What thing? I'm formatting a floppy right now as I type this, and it's
- JS> very hard to tell, other than barely hearing the step motor in the
- JS> drive. Well what do you know? The drive stopped and I felt no surge in
- JS> performance!
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- JS> BTW, where can you buy floppies that aren't already formatted? How often
- JS> do you format floppies?
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- >>I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
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- JS> I don't have any such constraints on my PC. Don't know what you're
- JS> talking about.
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- Are you running under win3.11 or win95. Also are you formatting the
- disk from windows or using dos...which would explain why you get no
- problems.
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- I think the point the Amiga community are trying to make...myself
- included..is that you can format a disk in both Workbench and AmigaDos
- with no performance lossat all.
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- JS> John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
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- Andy
- "I yam Popeye o'de Borg. Preparez ta be askimiligrated."
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