Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:26:22AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 07:22 am, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know the release build process, so I don't know how much
> > > effort is neccessary to create such floppies, but the loader seems to
> > > have all features needed to use such disks.
> >
> > It sounds like this is definatly a viable option.  Now someone needs to
> > see about hacking something like this into the release makefiles.
> 
> Note that I didn't say it would be a lot of work. ;^)
> 
> Do we have a volunteer showing up here?

Definatly not me.  I hate floppies (and they hate me).  I was just
trying to convince someone to follow what looks like a reasionably
promising path to keeping floppy support and moving the pain of dealing
with floppies from RE to the floppy users.

-- Brooks

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