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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 21:36:49 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- jorisd@bcl1.seri.philips.nl (Joris D inhuurkracht) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >To get back to the formatting of floppies:
-
- >Can you format 2 floppies at the same time with a PeeCee??
- >NO! (unless you have 2 floppy-controllers that is)
-
- Who still has two floppy drives these days except for Amiga users?
-
- >Or maybe format all your devices at the same time? I tried
- >2 floppies, a Syquest and my second Harddrive on my Amiga
- >and it actually worked. I still could copy files on my First
- >Harddrive quite happily!
-
- How impressive. I can do the same thing on my Mac, using Disk Charmer to
- format the disk and Anubis to format the hard drives. But I have never
- once in the four years I've owned two Macs needed to format a hard drive
- andPC formatted Zip disks reformat in less than 10 seconds.
-
- >I agree this is actually a hardware design fault in the PC,
- >but that's what makes the Amiga so great. Even the hardware
- >is prepared for a multitasking OS.
-
- In that case so is the Mac's.
-