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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> > For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled |
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> > by default. |
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> But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do |
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> things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence? |
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Yes, thankfully. Floppy disks have no real place nowadays, they are |
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bulky, unreliable and store very little. If you want support for legacy |
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hardware, it is there at the flick of a (config) switch but enabling by |
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default makes no sense, especially on Gentoo where default tends to mean |
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"starting point" more that "standard configuration". |
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Neil Bothwick |
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When there's a will, I want to be in it. |
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