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http://www.techtravels.org/amiga/amigablog/?p=280
This is probably because Amiga didnt have real hardware floppy-disk controller, just a general IO (CIA) chips, and read raw serial datastream into ram, all the decoding was done in software. Similar to Apple II 2x 8bit XOR checksum.
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http://www.techtravels.org/amiga/amigablog/?p=280
This is probably because Amiga didnt have real hardware floppy-disk controller, just a general IO (CIA) chips, and read raw serial datastream into ram, all the decoding was done in software. Similar to Apple II 2x 8bit XOR checksum.