> 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.
I do not call it "progress" when the PC industry flatly DENIES me the ability to keep using my current system, by making UNAVAILABLE spare parts of any sort for them. Now, thanks mainly to your comments, I am considering BOTH "stocking up" AND "moving on", to something like an IPad. I disparage only those in this industry who DENY me such choice, in the name of their own PROFITS!! > 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 money to maintain backwards compatibility with outdated standards 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 ... Tell that to the automobile and other industries in this country, who have FAR more years' "old stock" than the profit-mongers making PCs!! I guess it never occurred to PC vendors that FORCING US to have a new system every 2 or 3 years [or sooner!] is costing them BUSINESS, i.e. all those people who have ABANDONED traditional PCs for IPads, etc.! > 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. Might be simpler just to KEEP 512-byte sectors, as I am almost certain they could, IF their firmware-engineers were told to do so in "new" 4K sector disks. Might also save them a lot of LOST business, for I bet a "4K and ONLY 4K" decision may cost them a lot of Windows/Linus users as well, not merely those of us who still use and like DOS. > ... 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. Not angry, only trying to make a POINT, that backward-compatibility is "systematically" AVOIDED in this industry, only to achieve more SALES! So shall I ignore you, for as one friend has already noted to me, you certainly seem to be "propagandized" by the PC industry, AND ONLY the PC industry, into believing only what THEY expect you should believe! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
