At 11:19 AM 3/28/94 -0500, Hubert Chen wrote:
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>In message <9403280236.AA28705@discus.cs.unc.edu>you scrawled:
> >
> >Yes, I agree that the tar files should fit on floppies.  Would 1.4M
> >be enough, or would everyone also want 800k? Compression support has
> >been added to the installer, so the next release may be considerably
> >easier to transport.  Plus, the installer already accepts split tar
> >files (thanks to Brad), so reconstruction is not necessary.
>
>I don't think people need 800k floppies. The only macs to come with
>800k drives are the Plus, and early SE's, which don't have MMU's
>anyways. So the only way someone would need an 800k floppy is if they
>had SE's upgraded to SE/30's without the superdrive upgrade and they
>wanted to urn MacBSD. Pretty miminal segment of the population if you
>ask me..

The Mac II came with 800k floppies, and it does have an '020 and MMU.
This has been a problem for me with MachTen and some other packages
that have blithly dismissed that format.

How many people still have such? Beat me, but at least one does.
John Clark 
clark@synergy.encinitas.ca.us


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