Re: GS/OS for xgs emulator?

["Dan Yertzell" <Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net>]

MikeW50 <mikew50@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970312155300.KAA02536@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
> In message <01bc2e89$b89e2360$c95092cf@system1>,
> Dan Yertzell <Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
> >So many problems could have been avoided if Apple had followed the
> standard
> >for disk drives and formats, instead of going their own way.  
> 
> Excuse me: a point of history. Apple's 3.5" disks came first. Their
format
> came first. There was nothing for them to follow.

That's not what I'm talking about.  Where Apple failed to follow the
standard is in their *analog* disk recording method.  Everyone else
(mainframes, minis, micros) was using digital recording methods.  This is
why a PC can directly read a TRS-80 disk, even though the formatting is
different.  You just program the PC disk controller to read a different
format, but it is still MFM encoded.  This is also why a standard PC disk
drive will never be able to read an apple disk.  An apple disk is
essentially a random access cassette tape, ie an analog medium, not a
digital medium.

But this is all ancient history.  

Dan