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Date:      Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support
Message-ID:  <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org>
References:  <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org>

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In message <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org>, Hans Petter=
 Selasky writes:

>I think as long as you can read and write USB floppy drives under =

>FreeBSD, this change is OK. Even though floppies are old-tech they are =

>still important:
>
>https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/25/2054255/us-military-uses-8-inch-=
floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations

Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could still read 8" f=
loppies.

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