Fun thing, when you attach a USB floppy drive on a modern Windows 11 system, it’ll dutifully give it drive letter A: and even has a floppy drive icon. (Which admittedly doesn’t look like a floppy drive. At all. But it has a floppy!)
And why yes, I’ve seen it a time or two in recent years, because I’ve been archiving some stuff. Imaging shitloads of old floppies.
Every Windows is built on every generation before it. All sorts of legacy stuff is hidden and embedded inside that still works that’s useless. Dialer.exe still runs from the Run cmd. Com/LPT1 stuff should still be there for old printers.
I personally don’t have the heart to say any of the legacy support stuff is completely useless. I mean, yeah, Windows has support for floppy drives (through standard USB mass storage), but you know what? I can image old floppies through it. If Windows recognises floppy drives and gives it drive letter A, that’s not that much of bloat really, just an entry in a list or something.
And also most Linux distributions also have ancient-ass legacy stuff, though admittedly usually you need to specifically install it and maybe even hack a bit to get it to work again. …why yes, I am going to do physical terminal stuff one day, 1980s style, and I’ll be very mad if I need to hack serial getty support in the hard way!
Fun thing, when you attach a USB floppy drive on a modern Windows 11 system, it’ll dutifully give it drive letter A: and even has a floppy drive icon. (Which admittedly doesn’t look like a floppy drive. At all. But it has a floppy!)
And why yes, I’ve seen it a time or two in recent years, because I’ve been archiving some stuff. Imaging shitloads of old floppies.
Yeah and if you put a second one it’s B:. At least on my slowly dying 7 machine.
Every Windows is built on every generation before it. All sorts of legacy stuff is hidden and embedded inside that still works that’s useless. Dialer.exe still runs from the Run cmd. Com/LPT1 stuff should still be there for old printers.
I personally don’t have the heart to say any of the legacy support stuff is completely useless. I mean, yeah, Windows has support for floppy drives (through standard USB mass storage), but you know what? I can image old floppies through it. If Windows recognises floppy drives and gives it drive letter A, that’s not that much of bloat really, just an entry in a list or something.
And also most Linux distributions also have ancient-ass legacy stuff, though admittedly usually you need to specifically install it and maybe even hack a bit to get it to work again. …why yes, I am going to do physical terminal stuff one day, 1980s style, and I’ll be very mad if I need to hack serial getty support in the hard way!
To be fair, you occasionally need to “hack” Linux a bit to get modern stuff working, too