OT: Writing floppies on PC; Was Re: Guys take a look

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Fri Apr 19 18:11:39 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> > WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a
> > 1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
>
> That was one of the things IBM bragged about in the OS/2 2.0 ads. That
> you could continue with your word processor while you formatted a floppy.
> Windows could not even come close at the time.

  I already knew that every other OS that runs on PC does it right. I'd
like to know how M$ got it so horribly wrong....

        Doc
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 18:11:39 BST