Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:38:18 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <19980508133818.07317@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <21690.894635646@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:54:06AM -0700 References: <199805081327.XAA18001@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <21690.894635646@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard scribbled this message on May 8: > > Most floppies have size 1200K :-). 235K was carefully chosen for yep, gcd(1200,1440) is 240... > Maybe the ones _you_ have around the house conform to this particular > statistic, but in this corner of the world I think it's fair to say > that the 1.2MB floppy is just about extinct. > > Still, it's a point - do we really want to lose 1.2MB floppies > entirely (and, admittedly, somewhat gratuitously) by going to a 1400K > split size? also, what about 1.72meg floppy support? it was nice installing 1.1.5.1 off of 1.72meg floppy's where you could fit 7 segments on a single floppy... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem Rev/FAX: +1 541 346 9237 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for
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