Re: Of removable devices

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:55:11 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:39:09PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > No, this is unacceptable. If a user removes a media in the process of
> > writing, then it's his fault, and his program should get thrashed to
> > give him a lesson.
>
> Perhaps you would like to explain that to your grandmother. The Mac folks
> figured this out, the PC guys never got it.

maybe they did later than 7.5, but last time i tried having two floppy
discs on the go simultaneously (it _looks_ plausible from a UI PoV),
the machine got into an endless loop of prompting me for each disc.
stupid thing.

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