[haiku] Re: Wanted to write to my floppy drive
- From: Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:26:18 -0400
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jul 11, 2011 7:09 PM, "Sean Collins" <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I am having a difficult time dealing with the idea of a floppy disk on any
>> computer in 2011, in 1999 or 2003 sure.With floppy usb sticks and usb 1.1
>> and 2.0 thumb drives being avialable for $3-5 pretty much everywhere, is
>> this even a reasonable request ?
>
> It is clearly not reasonable. We should also remove support for anything but
> processers newer than Intel's Core 2, no? As well as CD-ROM drives. Those
> will be gone in twenty years, let's get ahead of the curve!
>
> There is nearly always value in legacy support.
>>
>> Peace out
>> Sean
>>
Haiku will get bogged down if it tries to go the legacy route. There's
just so much new stuff that you'd want to support, let alone the old.
Be Inc was all about dumping legacy compatibility not just because it
was cool and high tech sounding but also because it meant that they
wouldn't have to deal with drivers and the burden on customer support.
Even in those days, I don't think they really cared so much about
floppy drives. They were much harder to use in BeOS than on other
OS's.
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