From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Filesystem creation Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020514163246.H77017-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux 8086 > 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