Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2703-1002251498-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24351 invoked by uid 510); 5 Oct 2001 03:14:08 -0000 Received: from n24.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.74) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2001 03:14:08 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2703-1002251498-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.220] by n24.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Oct 2001 03:14:04 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 5 Oct 2001 03:11:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 73143 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2001 03:11:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 5 Oct 2001 03:11:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2001 03:14:00 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id UAA02642 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:13:49 -0700 Message-Id: <200110050313.UAA02642@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Intel.to.kill.floppy.drives,.serial.ports.next.year] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year By Tony Smith Posted: 04/10/2001 at 10:53 GMT Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. So say confidential Intel documents seen by The Register. The chip giant wants OEMs to phase out the floppy in the second half of 2002. It hopes they will pull the plug - as it were - on PS/2 and serial ports at the same time. The parallel port will be with us for a little while longer - Intel has yet to timetable its demise. And we note that corporate-oriented PCs will continue to ship with floppy drives after their consumer counterparts have ceased to do so, according to Intel's technology roadmap. Mac users have long been forced to live without legacy ports and floppy drives after Apple CEO Steve Jobs struck them off the company's spec. sheets some years back. We can't say we miss 'em since any file that can be fit on a floppy can be emailed to another user in moments. PC types seem to hang on to their outdated technologies with rather more passion than their Mac counterparts, which is the only way of explaining why there are so few 'legacy-free' PCs out there and why the ones that are tend not to sell as well as their port-packed alternatives. Vendors tend to see that as a sign that people want serial, PS/2, parallel etc. and not use USB and 1394. But unless you force people to change, as Apple did, it's impossible to say whether demand for older ports is intent or inertia. Intel's technology roadmap also tells us we'll see Bluetooth wireless connectivity appearing on new machines, initially via a USB module, in consumer and pro PCs during the first half of next year. In that timeframe we can expect to see PCs shipping with add-in Serial ATA cards. Integrating Serial ATA on the motherboard won't happen until the first half of 2003, Intel reckons. USB 2.0 will be integrated into the motherboard during 2H 2002. ® ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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