Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 22 Aug 2025 04:30:19 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1070cqj$3jkmu$1@dont-email.me> <1071hu3$1idk1$1@news1.tnib.de> <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1088lbg$1agt7$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net OD7KN5HMQdK+H5erWeZUswvzPEQgFzZx1LQjguS6GFP/uDcdBP Cancel-Lock: sha1:qn77HEU1L6STrv55AD0RQPGPC8s= sha256:1beY8FarcOYvZ8CBo4Mxkv90BJRktwisxUhwef+xAZQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71894 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22697 On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:40:47 -0400, Paul wrote: > Linux may have handled "better" floppy controller blocks than the one in > the example. Did Linux ever work with 8" floppy drives ? > I think the hardware had advanced a bit past that point. The last thing I remember using with 8" floppies was a Mostek development system. The IBM 5120 and the System 23 followup both were 8" too. Both predated Linux by about 10 years. https://deramp.com/mostek.html For added trivia, Shugart created the 5.25 Minifloppy. Both Shugart and Mostek were gone by the mid-'80s. Lot of dead bodies along the computer trail. I never had one bt the early Trash-80s were 8" too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II You probably could get the WD controller to work with an 8" but I'm not sure what Linux would do with a massive 2 MB drive.