From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-06-17 09:53:24
Hello Marko,
* On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0300 Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> It was a Subhect line, not Subject.
Oh, yes, you are right. Ok, lesson learned: Whenever I mix the To: and
the Subject: line, I will not try to fix this by editing these lines by
hand.
> > Anyway, for the long run, I'd like to add 1581 support into d64copy
> > (of cbm4linux/cbm4win).
>
> That's a good idea, because the 3.5" floppy drive seems to be
> disappearing from PCs.
Unfortunately, the parallel port might disappear before of the 3,5"
drives?
> That was two years ago, only 6-7 years after the disks were originally
> written.
Not wanting to start a flame war, but this is one big disadvantage of
the Linux idea. The Linux developpers always feel free to change the
driver interface, and they do this. In consequence, someone has to
maintain the drivers and implement this modified interface in the
driver. If no-one does, then the driver will be removed from the kernel,
as it is considered obsolete (no-one is interested anymore).
I had many dicussions about this with some fellows. I do not like that
attitude, but there is nothing we can do about it (for Linux).
Some told me that this "architecture" of changing the interface is to
show how bad binary-only drivers are. While this might be ok from a
"the GPL is all" aspect, this is not ok from a user's perspective.
Don't get me wrong: I know that with Windows, there are the same
problems with drivers and the like. But, at least, MS *tries* to retain
backward-compatibility.
But I tend to digress.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/
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