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- From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
- Subject: NEC 9800 Disc Format
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.144542.15162@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:45:42 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- The NEC 9800 series, albeit N86 based, use a proprietary BIOS and
- disc format. The latter is for 1.2M on a 3.5" floppy, but is not
- MAC-readable.
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- Programs that will run on the 9800 series will generally not run on
- an IBM-compatible PC. Data, however, may be transferred using something
- like LapLink, etc.,--if you have such a program for the NEC.
-
- Incidentally, one big difference between the Japanese and the US
- PC markets is that NEC dominates the former--and it's a closed
- system. Thus has the Japanese PC industry grown slowly and rather
- expensively for consumers. That's what might well have happened in the
- US had IBM made its system closed, or had Apple been the only computer
- maker in the business....
-
- Jeff
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