Re: Apple's ways

[Ralf Quint <Ralf_Quint@hot_mail.com>]

On 5 Aug 2001 11:11:09 +0200, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>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... :-(
Sorry, Paul, but you are not quite on the latest state of technology
anymore. A lot of newer state of the art mobo's don't even support a
second floppy drive anymore and have dropped support of 5.25" drives
too. I lost a bet about this a few month ago.....:-(((
> 
>> 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.
> 
Well, AGP didn't really phase out PCI for video, as for dual-screen
support, you still need a second PCI card. And there are only very few
(and expensive) dual-head cards out there... (btw., do they work in a
MAc???)

Ralf