DOS ain't dead

FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) (Announce)

posted by roytam, 09.05.2010, 09:48

> http://www.techbabu.com/2010/04/now-its-end-of-life-for-floppy-disks/
>
> > Sony has announced that it will stop making floppy disks from next
> year,
> > after that there will be no floppy disk manufacturer left in he market.
>
> One can emulate floppies using BOCHS (Pentium 3 and above) ... but no
> legacy DOS kernel can mount a floppy image itself My kernel will, when
> it comes out one day, if ever (my periods of temporary death might not go
> away, rather get longer and more frequent in the future, and eventually
> evolve into a permanent death ...)

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Verbatim-Will-Continue-Making-Floppy-Disks-141447.shtml

Complete thread:

• FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - DOS386, 07.05.2010, 05:07 (Announce)
  • HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive / Flopper - Arjay, 07.05.2010, 17:27
    • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 08.05.2010, 07:02
      • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:18
        • Other hardware floppy emulators - using USB sticks on ebay - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 16:43
        • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 13.05.2010, 03:51
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Rugxulo, 08.05.2010, 13:35
    • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:55
  • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 18:03
    • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - rr, 08.05.2010, 21:12
      • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 00:39
  • FDD emulator - Vehudis, 09.05.2010, 08:46
    • FDD emulators - fakedisk (read-only) + DF-IFS (read/write) - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 12:27
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - roytam, 09.05.2010, 09:48