who wrote to all:

 WM> How hard would it be to write a program for OS/2 (or any PC
 WM> platform, I guess) that could read 880K Amiga DOS disks? 
Very Hard!
As a remember it's a hardware problem. The Floppy Disk controller
on the PC is not as advanced as the AMIGA.

 WM> I
 WM> figure it has to be possible, because there was a program
 WM> for the Amy called DOS2DOS which could read/write IBM 720K
 WM> floppies, I just don't know where to start. 
Yes, the AMIGA was years ahead of the PC architecture. It was quite
easy on the AMIGA to make a program which could read nearly any 
diskformat.

 WM> (Or has this already been done somewhere? I figure OS/2
 WM> would be the platform of choice for old Amigans).
You're right! When I choose the PC platform in 1992 it was because of
OS/2. The AMIGA DOS is pretty similar to OS/2 in vision.

Kind Regards
     Henrik Falk (hfalk{at}ibm.net) 
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