Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:42:17 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: fdutils. |
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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
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