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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:48:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca4tt4$p5t$2@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040608085814.GA1269@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>| PCMCIA... well, that's another obsolete technology. Too bad.
>>
>>PCMCIA is obsolete? Did I miss something, or was this a joke?
> 
> 
> Obsoleted by cardbus, I believe. (cardbus cards look like PCMCIA
> cards, but electrical protocol is different) Plus, as someone else
> noted, stuff moves into mainboard. USB also replacs part of what
> PCMCIA was for.

Cardbus maybe, USB not. USB is very nice, but it's not typically SMALL. 
A PCMCIA NIC card is a credit card size, a USB NIC is a box plus a 
cable. Before you tell me I don't need it please name the affordable 
laptop which has 2 NICs.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-08 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-04 21:26 APM realy sucks on 2.6.x Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-04 23:14 ` Keith Duthie
2004-06-05  8:03   ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-04 23:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-06-05 17:18   ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-06  3:29     ` Michael Clark
2004-06-06  4:25       ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-06 13:56         ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-07 12:38 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 13:37   ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-07 14:05     ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 14:28       ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-07 14:48         ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 19:53           ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-06-07 21:13             ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-08  4:16           ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-06-08  7:12             ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-08  8:58             ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-08  9:02               ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-06-08  9:17                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-08  9:50                   ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-06-08  9:55                     ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-08 23:59                       ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-06-08 17:48               ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-06-08 18:59                 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-06-08 20:18                 ` Ian Stirling
2004-06-07 14:42     ` Keith Duthie
2004-06-07 14:44       ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 14:47       ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-07 14:51         ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 15:09           ` Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-07 16:26             ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 15:19         ` Keith Duthie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-07  8:11 Sebastian Kloska
2004-06-08  9:49 Sau Dan Lee

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