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Reading MAC 800k disks
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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