@chronocide the way information was encoded had a big impact on the the amount of data you could put on a 3½" disk. Apple used the GCR encoding which allowed them to store 800 kB where the same physical disk on a DOS machine which used the MFM encoding would contain 720 kB, the Amiga also used GCR and managed to squeeze 880 kB in the same disk.
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