XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
   From: as@sci.fi   
      
   Cameron Kaiser  writes:   
      
   >>Would that matter? Presumably the 1541 wasn't done when the C64 came   
   >>out, so they could've fixed the drive before release. I don't think   
   >>1540 compatibility would've been that important?   
   >   
   > One wouldn't have thought so in hindsight, but management disagreed and   
   > decreed that it must be backwards-compatible, so the crufty implementation   
   > had to stay.   
      
   It's an interesting claim, but what do you have to back it up?   
      
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