From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdutils.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:42:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF185A9.8000200@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1011113210638.11222D-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>
>>I believe both, but the important thing is that it's an ATAPI/SCSI
>>implementation, including a soft eject button, and not that horrible
>>legacy floppy crap.
>>
>
> Hmm, Sun used to have a software-controlled standard floppy drives years
> ago...
>
I'm not talking about Suns.
>
>>That wasn't what kept it from becoming standard, though. The marketing of
>>Zip was a bit too good, but Zip couldn't have displaced the legacy floppy,
>>since it wasn't compatible.
>>
>
> Based on local obervations hardly anyone uses floppies anymore... They
> are mostly used for system rescue purposes, where the kind of a device
> doesn't really matter.
>
... except that you no longer can fit a reasonable system rescue/install
setup on a floppy, so it *defintitely* matters. Also, the floppy device
is like a rash all over the hardware; it maintains a highly undesirable
legacy.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 9:11 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 16:44 ` fdutils Keith Owens
2001-11-15 22:51 ` fdutils Kai Henningsen
2001-11-13 18:28 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 19:42 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 19:57 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 20:12 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-11-13 20:52 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 21:02 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 21:45 ` fdutils Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-14 0:22 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:23 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-14 0:37 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:50 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-14 1:30 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-14 1:35 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-15 0:40 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 0:51 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:09 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 6:23 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:15 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-14 2:20 ` fdutils Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 2:18 ` fdutils. (Was Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd) Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 12:18 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 22:03 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 12:20 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-14 15:25 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 13:08 ` fdutils Horst von Brand
2001-11-14 14:01 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-16 10:26 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 7:35 fdutils Rajiv Malik
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