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Re: GCR <--CP/M --> MS-DOS and vice versa?

Subject: Re: GCR <--CP/M --> MS-DOS and vice versa?
From: Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:12:10 GMT
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Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in
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> To a rough approximation, MFM is to GCR as CP/M is to Apple DOS (or
> ProDOS) 

since technically an Apple based disk editor could read sectors from 
Apple CP/M, Pascal, ProDOS, Dos3.3, and often DOS 3.2.1 disks. 

A better comparison is a DVD/CD compared to a 45 record
both about the same size with cylinders or a spiral
but neither is hardware compatible.

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