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Re: Pegasos II vs AmigaOne
« on: February 02, 2004, 02:10:38 PM »
@Crumb
Your other questions are to inflammable for me and today ...

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 Why the Pegasos hasn't a Firewire or floppy driver yet?



FW, cos it's a hell lot of work (similar to an usefull USB-stack, if not worse).

The floppy-controller in the VIA-southbridges is still the accessed the same
way as it was in IBM's AT from 1982 ......

Yes it is that bad, and you can't just write normal driver with breaking stuff
inside Quark (thats laire's excuse  ;-) ). And really of what use would it be, since
you couldn't read Amiga-formated disks with it ?

Those who really need floppies can buy a Catweasle, those who just need PC-floppies
can buy an USB-drive (yes those should work).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else