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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: TOS 2.05 vs 2.06 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.011509.27791@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov19.194812.10824@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 01:15:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.194812.10824@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes:
- >OK, here's an easy one. Someone asked me the other day what the differences
- >between TOS 2.05 and 2.06 were. I understood there were just a couple of
- >minor bug fixes but is there more? Does 2.05 support the 1.44Mb format?
- >Just curious so I'll have the right answers the next time.
-
- a) Yes, it'll support READING 1.4MB format.
- b) No, it won't support FORMATTING 1.4MB disks.
-
- If you use a SCSI floppy, a driver comes in between, so that it won't
- matter which TOS you use (altho >= 1.4 is probably better, for reasons
- that have been hashed out FAR too many times with respect to Hard Drives)
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