Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:12:09 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: fdutils. |
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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...
> 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.
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