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Roy L. Fuchs
Damn. You said something that is actually correct.
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OT: In 15 years, hard drives will seem as quaint as reel-to-reel tape recorders
Damn. You said something that is actually correct.
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Roy L. Fuchs
Of course they'll be as quaint as reel-to-reel tape recorders. Nothing
can beat that 8-track technology.
;-)
They would have been fine had they come up with a PROPER way of
keeping the inner hub from getting wound taut. That was their only
demise. And the size and convenience of cassettes. *-tracks were
cool cause one could almost get to any place in the album fairly fast.
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Roy L. Fuchs
Of course...
You should refrain from being a top posting retard, no matter how
smart you think you are or how much you MAY contribute to a forum.
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Rod Speed
If the "firmware" is what makes it function as a calculator,
it can be defined as and declared as being an OS.
Nope, not all firmware is an OS. And OS is more than JUST firmware.
Hard drives have firmware, they dont have an OS.
Not at all.
Fraid so.
Perhaps you should re-read the definition.
You in spades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
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Rod Speed
Damn. You said something that is actually correct.
Unlike you who hasnt ever managed that yet.
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Rod Speed
Roy L. Fuchs said:Good call. Learn to trim.
Learn to mind your own business.
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Alexander Grigoriev
A: People bitching about top posting
Q: What's the most annoying thing on USENET?
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Rod Speed
Your shit for brains skull obviously doesn't know
a goddamned thing about optical cube storage.
Guess which pig ignorant little prat has just got
egg all over its pathetic little face, yet again.
Hell, these guys even stored data on a
roll of shipping tape and scanned it.
At nothing like the speed of a hard drive, you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.
You need to do some catching up, Chuck.
You need to retake Bullshitting 101, ****.
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Rod Speed
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed jackbooted fantasyland.
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Rod Speed
You should go and **** yourself.
Roy L. Fuchs said:You should refrain from being a top posting retard, no matter how
smart you think you are or how much you MAY contribute to a forum.
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Roy L. Fuchs
Hard drives have firmware, they dont have an OS.
Wrong again. Many hard drives had OSes that booted INSIDE the drive,
and reads and writes were managed by it independent of the OS on the
host machine that the hard drive was powered under, and interfaced to.
It was quite common to many SCSI and nearly all ESDI drives. The same
thing takes place today (cylinder, head, and sector translation), but
on a much smaller integrated scale. There is twenty times the
hardware on today's HDs than yesteryears. It simply all fits on less
chips these days.
Refrigerators have OSes, Washers and dryers have OSes, my HD DVD
player has an OS, and my Pioneer Elite Stereo has an OS.
You have a flawed operating system in operation in you.
Kick yourself in the ass and reboot. Maybe then your flawed logic
might get channeled elsewhere in your life.
The world isn't the same as when the term was coined. Now, entire
microcomputers fit in a friggin PSP. Since it is all in hardware, you
gonna tell me that isn't an OS too?
I push buttons, and get controlled responses. No different than a
simple calculator. The underlying core logic is an OS, whether you
like it or not. Just because it got "designed in" hardware as opposed
to something that gets loaded, or is updatable does't change the fact
that it fits the requisite parameters of the definition of the term.
Try again.
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Roy L. Fuchs
**** off and die. No need to learn, just eat some of that shit thatLearn to mind your own business.
has been coming out of your mouth.
This is Usenet, you retarded ****tard, and there are no private
discussions or closed threads. YOU GOT IT, CHUMP?
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Roy L. Fuchs
A: People bitching about top posting
Stupid Usenet ****tard. That's all you are.
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Roy L. Fuchs
At nothing like the speed of a hard drive, you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.
Dumbfuck. Two lasers scan the PAGE sized images in a single pass.
Get a clue.
The tape was fast and it was a lab joke. An optical cube with ten
thousand one gigabit layers will read pretty ****ing fast, you
retarded twit.
You'd better bone up.
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Roy L. Fuchs
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed jackbooted fantasyland.
I wish I could jack you with a boot, you retarded mother ****er.
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Roy L. Fuchs
You should go and **** yourself.
Whatsa matta? Didum's feeling get hurt?
Now you are a stalker besides being a stupid ****?
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Rod Speed
Wrong again.
Nope.
Many hard drives had OSes that booted INSIDE the drive,
Nope, that aint an OS, that's just firmware.
and reads and writes were managed by it independent of the OS on the
host machine that the hard drive was powered under, and interfaced to.
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
It was quite common to many SCSI and nearly all ESDI drives.
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
The same thing takes place today (cylinder, head, and
sector translation), but on a much smaller integrated scale.
There is twenty times the hardware on today's HDs than
yesteryears. It simply all fits on less chips these days.
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
Refrigerators have OSes,
Nope, they have firmware. Most firmware aint an OS.
Washers and dryers have OSes,
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
my HD DVD player has an OS,
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
and my Pioneer Elite Stereo has an OS.
That aint an OS, thats firmware.
You have a flawed operating system in operation in you.
Nope.
Kick yourself in the ass and reboot. Maybe then your
flawed logic might get channeled elsewhere in your life.
Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.
The world isn't the same as when the term was coined.
Now, entire microcomputers fit in a friggin PSP. Since it
is all in hardware, you gonna tell me that isn't an OS too?
Yep, firmware aint an OS.
I push buttons, and get controlled responses.
Thats just as true of mechanical calculators too, still no OS.
No different than a simple calculator.
They dont have an OS either.
The underlying core logic is an OS,
Nope, its underlying logic.
Using that terminally silly line, a 7400 has an OS.
Fraid not, its just got some transistors.
Just because it got "designed in" hardware as opposed to
something that gets loaded, or is updatable does't change the fact
that it fits the requisite parameters of the definition of the term.
You clearly wouldnt know what an OS was if it bit you on your lard arse.
Try again.
Go and **** yourself, again.
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Rod Speed
**** off and die.
No thanks.
No need to learn, just eat some of that shit
that has been coming out of your mouth.
No thanks, and shit come out of the other end too.
This is Usenet,
You quite sure you aint one of those rocket
scientist pig ignorant jackbooted ****wits ?
and there are no private discussions or closed threads.
Never ever said there were, you stupid pig ignorant jackbooted ****wit.
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Rod Speed
Two lasers scan the PAGE sized images in a single pass.
Pity a ROLL OF SHIPPING TAPE doesnt
qualify, you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.
You'd better bone up.
You're the one with your dick in your hand, ****wit.
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Rod Speed
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed jackbooted fantasyland.