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Re: what's the deal with the floppy?



On Mon, 3 May 1999, Thomas Adams wrote:

> I understand I can't use the floppy with Mac Linux. May I ask why exactly?
> No tech specs from Apple, nobody wants to implement it, too hard to reverse
> engineer?

In Progress.

The SWIM, which is the chip that talks to your floppy, hasn't been
documented by Apple.  Also, it's not interrupt-driven, it's polled, so we
HAVE to know the specs about it (or do a lot of good guessing) before any
results can be pulled from it.

I'm (trying) to start work on it.  I make no promises.

-Malcolm


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