lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher D. Lane) (12/28/90)
If you don't want to buy the expensive new 'extra density' floppies
for the NeXTstation, (amazingly enough) the NeXT is happy to accept
and build a Unix file system on lower density floppies. (Independent
of its DOS capabilities and without punching extra holes in the floppies).
Of course the capacities are proportionately reduced as well (I've
included Macintosh capacities for comparison purposes only):
Unformated Macintosh NeXT Unix
DSDD 1.0 MB 800 KB 525 KB
DSHD 2.0 MB 1.4 MB 1.25 MB
DSED 4.0 MB 2.64 MB
So, if you're transporting (possibly compressed) software that
can fit into 1.25 MB, you can get away with a much cheaper floppy.
And, if you buy 3M high density diskettes, they come in black to match!
- Christopher