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Hold up! Didn’t the floppies I remember store 1.44MB for us?
by kvz 9y ago
Hold up! Didn’t the floppies I remember store 1.44MB for us?
- DiThi 9y agoOr 1.38 MiB. Parent said _two_ floppies.
- e12e 9y agoLinux could actually store more, as could some custom programs for dos iirc - ms dos had some conservative standards in place due to early floppies being less reliable I think. I initially became aware because the Amiga floppy drive/format was a superset of dos. You could (with appropriate software) read/write dos floppies on the amiga - but you couldn't read/write amiga floppies on pc hw (not even Linux, I think). See "logical formats": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats