Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org> References: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org>
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-------- In message <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@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" f= loppies. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@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= .
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