Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Rask Lambertsen
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:27

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On Wed, 13 Sep 1995 18:49:51 GMT Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote:
> beverins@aol.com (B E Verins) writes:

> >I'll agree that the Mac PnP is very functional, but... erm... why then
> >does the ZIP drive require a Mac-Install Disk? For the SCSI version? The
> >ZIP on my Amiga (obviously with no Amiga specific installer) plugged in
> >and worked! Turn on the HD prep utility to prep the disks, and format 'em.
> >That's it. 

> Huh --- and how does your Amiga cope with the fact that you swapped your
> harddisk? Most OSs get very very confused when the data suddenly isn't there
> anymore, but instead other data is.

The Amiga supports removalbe media. That is very fortunate since the
Amiga makes no difference between hard disks and floppy disks :-)

--
Regards,
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From: gc948374@tycho.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 15 Sep 1995 12:27:27 GMT
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