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Article #2282Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Rask Lambertsen
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:10
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:10
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On 19 Sep 1995 09:49:04 GMT Duncan Grisby (dpg1@cam-orl.co.uk) wrote: > In article <DEuxn4.EBq@wombat.hanse.de>, > root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) writes: > > 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. > Presumably the same way it copes with the fact that floppies > can be suddenly not there -- disks have names. If my main hard > drive partition (named Work:) suddenly disappears (which would > be unfortunate since it's a fixed disk...), and something tries > to access it, the OS will prompt with "Please insert volume > Work: in any drive". It will do this regardless of whether the > disk is a floppy or some SCSI disk like a ZIP or CDROM. A nice thing about the Amiga OS is that is support removable media. Thus there is no problem at all with removable hard/floppy/whatever disks. Btw, the Amiga OS can tell the difference between disk with the same name. -- Regards, _________________________________________________________________________ / \ | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk>, <e9864029@ebar.dtu.dk> | | WWW homepage: http://srv2.gbar.dtu.dk:8001/Rask/ | | Keyboard error: <Ctrl> and <Alt> are stuck - press <Del> to continue | \_________________________________________________________________________/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!lorenz.gbar.dtu.dk!gc948374 From: gc948374@lorenz.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!!!!!!!!! Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 21 Sep 1995 10:10:23 GMT Organization: DTU Distribution: world Message-ID: <43rdmf$d6o@unidhp.uni-c.dk> References: <jragosta-0609951347510001@ppp-1016.dca.net> <430eoo$t3c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <DEuxn4.EBq@wombat.hanse.de> <43m3mg$bjn@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lorenz.gbar.dtu.dk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]