On 4/10/2011 12:08 PM, escape wrote: > Please get it right. I'm not arguing against support of new > technologies. But now it's often when manufacturers trying to disguise > cost cutting and marketing rubbish as prominent new technology. > > Look at monitors as an example. Getting 16:10 aspect along with 4:3 was > not a bad idea. While for some tasks 4:3 was better, 16:10 was better > for others. But now 4:3 almost completely disappeared and 16:10 are > quietly supplanted by 16:9. And with 16:9 aspect you plainly get less > resolution (and thus less information displayed) for given diagonal and > money compared to 16:10. "Hey! They intended for watching movies!" But > was "Casablanca" or "The Maltese Falcon" shot in 16:9? > > If not count for tons of potentially broken legacy software, 4k sector > is not a bad idea alone. But it became actual just now because > manufacturers lacks other "real" technologies for holding more user data > on same size platters. And 5 to 10 years down the road not only 512 byte > sectors, but whole idea of "precision mechanics that spins and wiggles > to remember something" may look "slightly" outdated. In fact it is > already looking so about few years, but for the moment we (of course > manufacturers at the first place), don't have any better solution than > to increase sector size.
I don't think I misread you. But the market is geared to the current problems, not the past problems. For some strange reason people like widescreen monitors even though most of our reading would benefit from portrait monitors. The current problem in the hard drive industry is that 4KB sectors are more efficient for data storage because of the nature of error correcting codes. The answer to broken legacy software will be more software that emulates what we need, or directly supports the newer hardware available. We either get frozen in time, or adapt. (For my vintage machines I stockpile a lot of parts that can't be made again, and where I can I adapt.) Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
