Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107181241570.2393-100000@dyna222-234.nada.kth.se>,
Lars Forsberg  <lfo@pdc.kth.se> wrote:
 
> My girlfriend has a computer with Windows 98. I tried to format a
> 3.5" disk on it yesterday. The disk was damaged so it wasn't possible to
> format it. The operating system got locked during the time it was trying
> to read the disk, and it took a while for it to realize it was unreadable.
> That would _never_ happen if you tried to do the same thing with WB 2.1 on
> the Amiga or FreeBSD! The same thing happened when I was trying to read a
> bad CD. Windows 98 got locked but FreeBSD didn't.
 
Win-9x is notoriously bad in trying to read damaged diskettes.  Whenever
I want to try to repair a damaged FAT diskette, I alwaus boot good ol' MS-DOS
(single-tasking, text-mode and all that stuff) and performs the repair
there, because MS-DOS is much better at doing this.
 
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