Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:

> >>> Most cheap-brand card drivers have not been tested with SMP
> >>> systems, and, often, will blow up on said systems.  I have
> >>> serial, parallel, ISDN, Ethernet and WiFi USB thingies, and
> >>> they all work fine on my (Win2K) laptop.
>
> Blow UP??? Or just not work?????

Well.  The drivers kinda blow up, resulting in funnyness and
general blue screens :)

(it WOULD be fun if the dongles actually blew up...)

--f