On 4/10/2011 11:35 PM, Jack wrote: > Also, I do not know you and you do not know me, so WHO ARE YOU to assume > I am "irritated or in a bad mood"?!! Are you in fact a COMMUNIST?? I > seem to recall THEY used to "operate" via trying to beat-DOWN opposition > with such unqualified INSULTS as you have thrown at me!! So are we now > to think of you that way?? > > Learn to address THE POINT of a thread, boy, and keep your damn personal > INSULTS OUT of it!! My point in the thread is that YOU do not get to choose what is the appropriate rate of progress. Either stock up on spare parts, or move along. Disparaging everybody in the industry who has a different point of view is ranting.
The second point that you fail to grasp is that it costs too much money to maintain backwards compatibility with outdated standards past a certain point. No factory is going to stay open churning out 56K modems, CRT monitors, ISA cards, and in this case 512 byte sector hard drives past a certain point. You can have your choice only if you are willing to pay out the nose to custom fabricate your own hardware for old standards! I never advocated "burning" cycles for sake of burning them. My point there is that if we're looking for function, the hardware will and the additional cost of software overhead to keep backwards compatibility will probably do what we need. Once again, it's not our choice - if/when 512 byte sectors go away we're going to have to insert extra software for compatibility purposes. Jack, I'll just ignore you from this point on .. you just seem to be very angry. The readers of the list can judge for themselves. 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
