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Cobra · 11-28-2001, 01:44 AM

I wonder why Jim wants the installer to fit on a floppydisk in times of where allmost everyone seems to have a cdwriter and/or broadband internet? *g* Besides:

Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year
By Tony Smith
Posted: 04/10/2001 at 10:53 GMT

Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002.

So say confidential Intel documents seen by The Register. The chip giant wants OEMs to phase out the floppy in the second half of 2002. It hopes they will pull the plug - as it were - on PS/2 and serial ports at the same time.

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11-28-2001, 01:44 AM	#41
Cobra Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Germany, Bamberg Posts: 13	I wonder why Jim wants the installer to fit on a floppydisk in times of where allmost everyone seems to have a cdwriter and/or broadband internet? g Besides: Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year By Tony Smith Posted: 04/10/2001 at 10:53 GMT Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. So say confidential Intel documents seen by The Register. The chip giant wants OEMs to phase out the floppy in the second half of 2002. It hopes they will pull the plug - as it were - on PS/2 and serial ports at the same time. [...] ;-)