Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

Den Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:40:01 +0000 skrev smf <smf@null.net>:
> On 10/01/2019 19:27, Mia Magnusson wrote:
> > For example the PS/2 model 25 and 30 were kind of just like the
> > older XT and AT (those with the /286 suffix) machines, but the
> > connector and mounting hardware for the floppy drives were
> > different and their IDE hard drive were of a standard that no-one
> > else used. Everything became a huge vendor lock-in.
> 
> The industry adopted all the standards except MCA, instead we got
> EISA & VLB before PCI & AGP came along.

No, as I said, PS/2 also had non-standard connectors for the floppy
drives and totally non-standard hard disks, which the industry
certainly didn't adopt at all.
 
> People hated the PS/2 because it was change that they weren't ready
> for, but it got them ready for change in the future.

No, people hated PS/2 because most of the changes were unnecessary and
didn't provide any benefit to the user.

For the huge prices IBM did charge for their computers, they could for
example very well had afforded the extra production cost of running
power cables to the drives and thus used standard connectors on the
drives.

They could also have retained the ISA bus along the MCA bus to not lock
out customers of many of the add-on cards.

It was Compaq together with Conner that made the hard disks which the
industry adopted - IDE / parallell ATA.

> Similar to the "stupid microsoft, what is this start menu for, I want 
> program manager back" in 1995, which in 2012 turned into "stupid 
> microsoft, they removed the start menu, I need it back now".

I remember many anger against Microsoft but was the start button really
one of the things that made people really angry? (In Win9x and NT4 you
could still more or less easily run the program manager).

What I certainly were angry about was the change of the ctrl+esc
behavior, which IIRC with Win 3.x and NT 3.x opened the task manager
while it opened the start menu in later Windows versions. The task
manager in those later versions could be activated with ctrl+shift+esc
but although it certainly were far more powerful, it was rather crappy
as a task switcher. In the win3.x days I used ctrl+esc and the cursor
keys to switch between active applications instead of alt+tab.


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