Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mike Stein <*mhs.stein_at_gmail.com*> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:39:33 -0500 Message-ID: <04F2FABE29434605B4E34F29279ED662@310e2> · mhs.stein_at_gmail.com

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From: <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

>> On 2019-01-08, at 22:41, smf <smf@null.net> wrote:

>> Nobody is saying that the reason that the industry adopted the IBM PC was due to it's brilliant engineering.

> I kinda thought there were some who at least implied that it was brilliantly engineered.

I haven't read that anywhere in this 'discussion'; all I ever said was that the twisted cable was a clever hack and that denigrating and insulting the designers of the PC for working within the constraints of the day was uncalled for. Period.

Do you have to resort to reductio ad absurdum ?