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- From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 5 1992
- Message-ID: <n0e20t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 11:11:02
- Lines: 53
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- > Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
- > From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- > Message-ID: 1992Nov10.040046.12561@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- >
- > In <1992Nov6.003622.22353@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- > dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:
- > > The common arguement given by C= is that 90% of the masses have no use
- > for
- > >a feature in a low-end machine. I can see several for the 1200:
- >
- > I think the real argument is: sorry, we have the floppy controller built
- > into the chipset which limits us to DD floppies. To use HD floppies we
- > need some overhaul of the chipset (forthcoming, expensive) or a special
- > drive (still expensive).
-
- I really can't understand why they could not improve Paula to handle HD
- floppies. It doesnt seem like it would be that hard to do, we're only
- talking double the speed of something thats not very fast in the first
- place. I hope the next chipset will at *least* double, if not quadruple,
- the speed of the floppy disk hardware. There's 4 times the bandwidth with
- AGA already, so a 4 times speed increase to the floppy hardware should fit
- in nicely. And that would allow for 1.76MB and 3.52MB floppies.
-
- > > Data interchange: From exchanging nude .gifs to Postscript files.
- >
- > Agreed.
-
- Amiga OS 3.0, included with all AGA machines (A1200 and A4000), has
- something called "DataTypes", which is just what you want. Right now, it
- has "drivers" for IFF ILBM pictures, IFF 8SVX sounds, AmigaGuide, and text
- files. As soon as more people get 3.0 machines, we'll start seeing
- datatype drivers for other formats like GIF, JPEG, etc, and hopefully for
- other kinds of data, like wordprocessor files (drivers for wordperfect,
- ProWrite, Final copy, etc), music files (SMUS, MED, ST, etc), etc.
-
- Extremely nifty idea. Three cheers to the people who thought this up!
-
- > Regards,
- > --
- > Michael van Elst
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- > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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