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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
- Message-ID: <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:34:17 GMT
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- In article <YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i@andrew.cmu.edu> rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick
- Stanley Francis) writes:
- > Your post's title was a bit misleading, after all you only seem to
- > want to emulate the Amiga's file system.
-
- [ suggests using MS-DOS disks ]
-
- I do that now. I don't have a floppy drive on my NeXT, so I use
- a Sparc's.
-
- You probably could make the NeXT drive do the trick. An
- MS-DOS DD disk is 80 cylinders, 9 sectors per. An Amiga
- disk is 80 cylinders and 11 sectors per. If you can coax the
- drive into doing that, you'd just have to implement the
- filesystem, which shouldn't be much harder than the
- MS-DOS one was.
-
- (An Amiga drive can do either as well as more bizarre
- stuff.)
-
- ab
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