2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
4:24 p.m.
I care since I use 5¼inch floppies. And of course once ReactOS is stable
enough I intend to replace the current operating system on it (Windows NT
Workstation 4.0) as better stuff will run on it.
And I also have two drives.
I agree ReactOS can bring back to life old computers, or at least give
them a more up-do-date feeling to it.
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:20:51 +1000, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
<elhoir(a)gmail.com> wrote:
" I know people say "Who cares about floppy
support?""
I care
Because i do think ReactOS can bring back to life old computers, which
still
have floppies
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Cameron Gutman
<cameron.gutman(a)reactos.org>wrote;wrote:
>
>
> > With all my respect to the hard work put into this, I want to express
> my
> concerns:
> How did I know this was coming? ;)
> >
> > Why is there a need to develop a half-done fdc, if there is a full,
> working, tested by millions driver available even in old DDKs, which we
> can
> use without violating its license?
> > Why waste time writing that driver from scratch now when we could just
> import DDK's one and spend time fixing our PnP manager instead, and
> other
> involved components so that DDK's driver actually works?
> As far as I know, the only floppy related DDK driver is sfloppy.sys. If
> that is wrong, I would be happy to import a better fdc.sys and scrap
> this
> one.
> > Again, with all my respect to Cameron, he does a great job, but when
> he
> disappears next time for a year or two, who is going to finish FDC? Or
> any
> other of his half-finished branches? (each being really a pearl if it's
> done).
> aicom-hardware-fun can be deleted because somebody is finally working on
> usb. tcp-rewrite-branch was merged to the GSoC project. The only
> incomplete
> branch is aicom-network-branch which has Alex's new Winsock code in it
> (which only a few bugs prevent from being fully functional).
> > I would really suggest using all available resources first and only
> then
> spend time developing our own stuff instead of already existing.
> I did this thing in one (long) night because I was bored. It's not like
> I
> spent a month doing it. I know people say "Who cares about floppy
> support?"
> and I agree but it has to be done at some point to be compatible with
> XP/Vista/7.
> >
> > Thanks for understanding,
> > Aleksey.
> Regards,
> Cameron
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