31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
10:42 a.m.
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Christian Corti wrote:
The Amiga does an entire track of raw data to and
from GCR in memory
[...] s/GCR/MFM/g
GCR was almost never used on the Amiga.
Thus supporting my contention of an instance of MFM without DAMs.
(FM/MFM and DAMs are both essential components of the "IBM"/WD track
format "standard", but are largely independent of each other - Amiga being
an example of MFM without the IBM/WD track structure.)
Although rightfully called "IBM standard" track format, use of that term
results in clueless lusers who think that computers started with 5150
thinking that we are talking about the PC.
Depending on how you define GCR, it can easily be argued that MFM
IS A TYPE OF GCR. Ethan is therefore not WRONG.
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