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- From: mike@Turing.ORG (Michael Chapman)
- Subject: Re: Question about high density drives on the Amiga
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.014343.20526@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:43:43 GMT
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- In article <BxF9w0.KFG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
- >This is probably a really old question, but I just don't understand
- >why IBM (for example) high density drives cannot be somehow hacked
- >and used on the Amiga.
- >
- >We know that adequate driving software can be written, since multi-dos,
- >messy-dos and cross-dos all exist.
- >
- >So what is the big hangup? It seems to me that the ability to use a HD
- >IBM drive on the Amiga would be a mini-revolution for Amiga owners...
- >
- >Just curious...
- >
- >Scotty AJ
- >--
- >
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- >Scotty A. Johnson "The beast with the four foot tail." Iguana@uiuc.edu
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Speed. Get the Commodore drive if you can find it.
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- /-------------------------------\
- |Amiga and Unix hacker for hire.|
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- | mike@turing.org Mike Chapman |
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- I hate to toot my own horn...
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- But I guess being flexible has its advantages.
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