19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
6:11 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
I already knew that every other OS that runs on PC does it right. I'd
like to know how M$ got it so horribly wrong....
Doc
WHAT is M$
doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a
1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
That was one of the things IBM bragged about in the OS/2 2.0 ads. That
you could continue with your word processor while you formatted a floppy.
Windows could not even come close at the time.