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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <69121@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 18:27:06 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> <13414@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Lines: 66
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- >In <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- >>charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
- >>>grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- >>>>2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >>>>> Before the A1200 was officially announced in Europe someone
- >>>>> had posted specs about the 1200 which were not official. In that
- >>>>> post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the
- >>>>> new 1.76M floppy.
- >>>
- >>>>It has an 880Kb floppy.
- >>>
- >>>>> (oh please, oh please have the 1.76M drive):)
- >>>
- >>>>Sorry about that, dude...
- >>>
- >>>Arrrgh. This is my *only* gripe about the A1200. So now all these AGA game
- s
- >>>are going to have to fit on an 880K floppy? And so much for CrossDos
- >>>actually being *useful*. :(
- >
- >My thinking is that all this AA Sound Stuff and HD Disks ties up
- >(naturally) to Paula. CBM have not released an AA Paula, probably, I
- >suspect, because it is still under development... and guess what thay
- >are putting in it? Both the new (speculated) sound upgrade (16 bit 16
- >voice PCM... who knows?) __AND__ an upgrade to enable Paula to handle
- >HD Floppies at _FULL_ speed... this must be possible now with the
- >extra bandwidth such as that given to the blitter...
- >
- >So folks, if my speculation is correct, for owners of true 32-bit
- >(databus) machines with AA chips, we could soon have a Super-Paula
- >giving us superb sound and full speed HD disks (let's face it, low
- >speed HD disks are a bit naff)...
-
- If this is the case, then ALL (Paula upgradable) AGA Amigas should start
- having the dual speed HD's in them. Why? So that if a AGA Paula is put in
- place, the OS can spin the HD dual speed drive at it's normal, higher speed
- and read/write hd floppies at the faster speed.
-
- >All speculation, but stanger things have happened
- >
- >(CBM may even leapfrog forward to a 3.52Mb disk (like IBMs 2.88), but
- >I doubt it! (although I hope to be corrected))
-
- I highly doubt it too. They seem to aim more at the low end game market.
- Not sure the more expensive disks would sell well there.
-
- >So hold yer horses, and see what happens!
- >
- >----
- >
- >E.F.Pritchard ///
- >efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- >University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- >England. signature, any ideas?
-
- -Joel
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