Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>>> I will likely shut the machine down and remove the quad qe card.
>>>> It really serves no useful purpose at 10Mbit/sec.
>>> We built the whole damn world on 10Mbps 35 years ago.
>> [...]
> The $0.50 microcontroller that's on the board I just finished laying
> out is a good bit more powerful than my desktop workstations'
> processors were back then, too.  And I used high-end workstations!

Yeah.  It happened to storage too.

My hp300 machine, back when I had one, had a disk drive that held,
IIRC, about one gig, and weighed about what I do.  (Mind you, it was
seriously rugged.  A friend of mine said, on looking at it, something
like "when they nuke the city, it'll loss of power that takes it down"
(ie, not the EMP).)

And I just today found, loose in the clutter in my "office", a "4G"
(really about 3.72G) SD card.  Three and three quarters times the
storage of that disk drive on something roughly five orders of
magnitude lighter - and with a footprint almost exactly that of the end
joint of my thumb.  And so cheap it's loose in the clutter instead of
being kept carefully stored against damage or loss.

> It's just that when people call it "useless", well, frankly, I know
> better.  We got a great deal of work done, just fine, at 10Mbps.

Well, "useless" is very user-dependent.  A quad qe may serve no useful
purpose in _that_ machine, ie, for _that_ user's use cases, even though
it may be highly useful in other cases.  The quad qe I have in live use
in my desktop SS20 right now would serve no useful purpose in a
different SS20 I have, because they're doing very different jobs.

> Something better coming along doesn't make what it replaced worse.
> Salesmen seem to have most of society believing that it does, though.

"New And Improved!".  Agreed.

One of the many deep-rooted illnesses of our society.

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