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- On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Charles Hunter wrote:
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- > read or written to by DOS drives. Many older drives and systems like
- > C64, Amiga, and Macs have this style of disk drive where the speed of the
- > rotation varies with the location on the disk, x86 machines however
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- Don't know about C64 but Amiga does NOT have drive with varying speed..
- Amiga's hardware allows better control of the drive and the varying speed
- is made by turning disk motor on and off quickly. This allows reading of
- Macs 800k disks. Some older Mac emulators used it but it was discarded
- because multitasking had to be forbidden...
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