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- Cliff,
-
- >Well it certainly won't happen between now and when 2.0 comes out.
- >Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of control over
- >the floppy disk that the Amigas did. After 2.0 comes out we'd
- >probably be willing to pay some $$ to get this functionality, but I'd
- >also guess that just a simple program to read 800k Mac disks on a PC
- >would also generate some revenue, which then begs the question "if
- >it's doable, why hasn't someone done it?" Specifically, why hasn't
- >someone written a program for the PC which reads an 800k formatted
- >floppy (writing is much less important).
-
- Yeah, but the amount of profit such a device would make probably wouldn't be
- worth the time and effort necessary to make it work (assuming that it is
- possible on a PC). That and the mere fact that it _TOTALLY_ precludes the
- use of multitasking may be difficult to deal with (many people would keep
- hollering "why doesn't it run in Windows?" <G>).
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