Re: [offtopic] Re: Microsoft Web Site

Ryan Krebs (fluffy@simons-rock.edu)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:13:14 -0400 (EDT)


On 7 Oct 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Hot swapping PCMCIA is the whole point of PCMCIA, if you do not
> support that there is no reason to refer to PCMCIA support at
> all. It's like saying that one should switch off a laptop instead of
> doing suspend to disk.

And here I thought PCMCIA was useful for other reasons, like the fact that
a PCMCIA card fits in a laptop much better than a PCI card. I don't know
all that many people with laptops, but none of them need to swap their
cards.

>
> Now, how can it be that a silly thread like this can result in so many
> replies even in $#$#@ private email on the subject. If all this energy
> was spent on hacking code instead we would be well ahead of anybody
> else.

I'm a college student. I've got plenty of free time.

Fluffy

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