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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:42:17 -0800
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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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