From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Message-ID: <177337936567.20011105173445@proweb.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] Plan 9 In-Reply-To: References: <20011102172614.8CF92199B9@mail.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:34:45 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14a33c48-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 JtUO> rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes: >> Our lack of USB support is the real problem here. I wish... JtUO> When USB is replaced by the next fad, people will still be using PS/2 JtUO> keyboards and serial-port modems. (Parallel port printers we'll JtUO> probably replace sooner or later with network printers, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22034.html Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year By Tony Smith Posted: 04/10/2001 at 10:53 GMT Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. So say confidential Intel documents seen by The Register. The chip giant wants OEMs to phase out the floppy in the second half of 2002. It hopes they will pull the plug - as it were - on PS/2 and serial ports at the same time.