Re: Win98 -- all kidding aside



Jimmy Montague wrote:


No. The message is "use another system." The Mac, for example, handles
floppies with ease. But your response probably indicates why Linux does
not.

Macs probably *did*. Back then. Macs haven't *had* floppy drives
since...when?

The ones that *did* have them had sensors that did alert the OS to media
changes. Didn't I say that already, or are you not quite understanding
what I'm saying here?



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