Re: Manual floppy eject (Mac)

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From: David Corn
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 22:12

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Mike Noreen <ev-michael@mail.nrm.se> wrote:

>Well, technically it is still more advanced than either Copland 
>or Win95, in that it is fully 32-bit, fully preemptively 
>multitasking, fully modular, fully OO, realtime and a lot of 

Fully OO?  I don't think so.  Can you define what you mean by this?

>other stuff that other operating systems are still struggling 
>to achieve. And it did really handle removable media just the 
>way that guy said - both System7 and Windows have abysmal 
>handling of removable media, for no good reason other than 
>backwards compatibility.

Really?  I haven't had any problems with my Zip drive, nor with floppy
drives.  What are you talking about here?

You miss one key little point - those other OSs have -software-,
something the Amiga sorely lacks.

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