From: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
To: Linux 8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem creation
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:36:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020514163246.H77017-100000@agora.rdrop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205140750060.5425-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX>
> We could easily add that anyway, and label it as EXPERIMENTAL until
> somebody with such a machine turns up to test it. After all, the BIOS
> routines for that are fairly well documented.
Sure, but with the cost of floppies and even RAM and flash drives, there'd
be little point. Cassettes were really for those that couldn't afford any
other form of storage, and are really a poor way to store data, despite
being kinda neat in their own strange way. Besides, it may takes hours to
load :)
> My first hard drive (a 20M one) cost me nearly GBR 850 at the time, and
> the 60G one I recently bought cost me GBP 95 by comparison.
Doesn't it make you sick to see how quickly that stuff looses it's value?
I've started getting hardware used or at least "trailing edge" just to
avoid pumping a lot of money into something that will soon be
worthless...and because I don't really need that much to do what I'm
doing.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-14 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-13 2:33 Filesystem creation lnordstrom
2002-05-12 23:07 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 14:22 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-13 17:36 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 0:12 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:31 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 6:54 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:36 ` Dan Olson [this message]
2002-05-14 0:19 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 6:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:48 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-15 0:12 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-12 1:23 lnordstrom
2002-05-12 20:04 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 8:59 ` Javier Sedano
2002-05-13 12:02 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-13 17:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 6:56 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 12:44 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 17:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 17:59 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:52 ` Riley Williams
[not found] ` <3CE0283D.264@havn.com>
2002-05-14 21:01 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-15 1:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:05 ` Riley Williams
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