Re: Apple's ways

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20010804135409.20201.00002759@ng-bh1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
 
 
> Things do phase out in the PC world.  The AT formfactor has
> almost been phased out by ATX.  5.25 got phased out by 3.5.
 
5.25 isn't really phased out -- you can add a 5.25" drive to a modern
PC and it will work.  I did just that about a year ago, in order to
transfer all my old 5.25" floppies to CD.  One interesting tidbit:
the data transfer rate from a 5.25" floppy is quite noticeably faster
than from a 3.5" floppy.... apparently optimizing floppy disk data
traqnsfer rate was phased out on the PC too... :-(
 
> AGP phased out PCI for video and PCI phased out ISA.  But
> the difference is that in the PC world, things are never CUT off
> cold turkey.
 
...except at the very beginning of the PC, when CP/M-80 support
was absent (i.e. "cold turkey cut off"): different disk formats,
different CPU instruction set -- almost everything different.
 
> They are GRADUALLY phased out providing a transition period for
> users thus maintaining continuity.  This is something that Apple
> under Jobs never understood.
 
Jobs was a visionary, not a practical man..... :-)
 
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