18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
1:30 a.m.
| *Why we are limited to 2 floppy drives in DOS
The same reason there are absurd memory limitations,
etc.
Someone wasn't thinking very far ahead.
``Why would anyone *ever* need more than [amount]
[thing]?''
The problem was that the people doing the PC
development
weren't looking at micros as real computers. They saw
them as little more than toys - they just happened to be
toys you could sell to companies to put on the desktop.
Nice, and sounds good, but often (as here found) just a
modern, urban legend - the IBM twist was just a genius
thing to keep part storage and maintainance costs low -
with the twisted cable you _can't_ install a wrong drive
as add on, and you _don't_ need to check any jumper or
what ever (supposed the drive is factory jumpered to #1)
Solutions of that kind are common in all times and are
strictly production/maintanance related and _not_ short-
sighted - The developers _did_ see a need for more drives,
so they offered the possibility to add more than one controller
by default.
You just can't blame anything on one quote.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK