Re: [offtopic] Re: Microsoft Web Site
Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:03:31 +0100
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:19:04AM -0400, Ryan Krebs wrote:
>
>
> On 7 Oct 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > >> While discussing Plug'n'Pray: Linux has been supporting PCMCIA for
> > >> years, NT still didn't last I heard (NT4).
>
> > Wouter> NT4 does support PCMCIA.
> >
> > NT4 does not support hot-plug PCMCIA, aka it does not support
> > PCMCIA. PCMCIA without hot-plug is nothing but ISA support.
> >
> > Try again.
>
> I don't think hot swapping is an issue for most people today. Since most
> laptops have internal CDROMs and what-not, they don't need to worry about
> using external stuff that would require a PC card. Most people with
> laptops will have an ethernet card and/or a modem, which they can use both
> at the same time, or even get them on the same card.
?
No, let me rephrase that....
Bollocks. I wish that every time people started a sentence by going
"Most people..." they would just remember that what they really mean
is "I". The number of people who care about the fact that you don't
want to be able to use hot-swap on your laptop is, I suspect, quite
small. As the man said "PCMCIA without hot-plug is nothing but ISA
support".
This is also hopelessly off-topic.
S
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