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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Pete French wrote:

>> It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be
>> completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use
>
>You are assuming that you can boot from the CD-ROM, which isnt true
>on any of the machines I own for starters. Floppies are still very
>useful as a bootstapping tool - even Windows XP does it this way
>after all. It may take 6 floppies, but it enables you to get the OS
>onto a machine with just a boot floppy.
>
>-pcf.
	But you need "other" media to install OS from... :-)
	The time of floppy is going away. It's too expensive now. It's not
so much durable.


   Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
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