This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix)
Article: 7711 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: grobson@netcom.com (Gary D. Robson) Subject: Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix) Message-ID: grobsonD7KE78.2vD@netcom.com Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:18:44 GMT Approved: by the fine folks at hacker central Lines: 26 Sender: grobson@netcom12.netcom.com Status: RO
Alistair James Robert Young (ajry@st-and.ac.uk) wrote: : This isn't really IBM's fault - at least, not the OS/2 writers. AFAIK, : there's *NO* way whatsoever to persuade a PC to boot from anything : other than the first hard drive or floppy drive A:. Blame the PC : designers. You're missing the point. It would have cost IBM a quarter to throw in a 5-1/4" boot disk, and it would have cost them *nothing* to provide a method for making a 5-1/4" boot disk, both of which would have allowed the installation to occur. I don't care if I have to *use* 3-1/2" diskettes. Heck, I like them better. I just feel that I'm going to have to avoid recommending OS/2 to non-hacking friends with older boxes, because I don't want to have to go over to their houses and change their drives around! That's no way to produce commercial products! ObHack: Wiring a photodiode into the joystick port of an Apple ][ and hooking it up outside the door, so the computer can detect people walking up to the house. No practical use that I could think of (there are much better ways of doing burglar alarms), but it was fun for parties. -- /---------------------------- Gary Robson ----------------------------\ | Internet: grobson@netcom.com | "If it ain't broke, fix it anyway. | | CompuServe: 76130,1111 | How else can you truly learn it?" | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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