Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Dec 3 10:28:23 UTC 2017
--------
In message <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9 at selasky.org>, Hans Petter Selasky writes:
>I think as long as you can read and write USB floppy drives under
>FreeBSD, this change is OK. Even though floppies are old-tech they are
>still important:
>
>https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/25/2054255/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations
Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could still read 8" floppies.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
More information about the freebsd-arch
mailing list