Jeff Hellige skrev:
>>The Apple II floppy was incredibly ingenious, and a great value, the Mac
>>floppy the biggest ripoff this side of mil/nasa. That stinking floppy drive
>>was $170 from Apple until it was discontinued, and nothing but the Apple
>>unit will work in a mac.
> Given how 'dumb' the PC floppy is though, it's easy to see
>why you couldn't just pop one into the Mac. Mac floppies, like Amiga
>floppies, automatically update the OS upon insertion or removal of a
>disk. Mac floppies also are under OS control for ejecting the disks
>automatically. Obviously there are considerable differences between
>the two platforms then as far as the floppy drives are concerned,
>which is why one can't just pop a PC drive into an Amiga either. Not
>all platforms use passive components that require user intervention
>at all times.
But you can flop a PC drive into an Amiga, as long as you stick to DD.
>>PCI slots were the straw that annoyed this camel beyond anything else. A
>>huge portion of the reason I bought a PCI mac was compatibility with a
>>standard after many years of suffering nubus price gouging and neglect. But
>>NO, it isn't freaking compatible with anything PC PCI, and over the
> Apple can't be blamed for the lack of drivers for various
>cards though. I have used any number of PC PCI boards in my PCI
>Mac's, including USB, Firewire and video boards. The slots
>themselves are compliant with the PCI standard. It's just a matter
>of lacking 3rd party drivers. Creative Labs is releasing a Mac
>version of it's SB Live, NVidia has done Mac versions of it's
>Geoforce boards, 3Dfx did Mac versions of it's Voodoo4 and Voodoo5
>boards just before they went under, and Adaptec has done Mac versions
>of many of it's SCSI boards.
Exactly, blame the HW bastards. But can anyone explain why there are so many
Mac-specific PCI video cards?
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Received on Tue Mar 27 2001 - 07:17:06 BST