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- From: Claus Brod <clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com>
- Subject: Re: No more TOS
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 15:36:34 MESZ
- In-Reply-To: <m0pwFAv-0000cyC@sdf.lonestar.org>; from "ekl@sdf.lonestar.org" at Apr 27, 94 2:21 pm
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
-
- > (has anyone thought
- > about floppy? That isn't SCSI and MiNT doesn't seem to always realize
- > a disk change as much as TOS, as long as we rewrite everything else, you
- > might as well rewrite the Floppy drivers too - some code to have the step
- > rate changed automatically for 1.44MB and 720K disks would be nice as
- > the stupid AJAX doesn't do this change (although new TOSs might).
-
- TOS 2.06 fixes that. I'm not convinced it would be worth the
- trouble writing a special floppy driver. Nowadays, I use my
- floppy drive mainly for program installation, not for productive
- work with the computer. Not that I wouldn't like background
- floppy transfers, but let's focus on hard disks first which are
- most people's main storage medium, especially for people who use
- MiNT, MultiTOS and *NIX-like setups.
-
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