Apparently, though unproven, at 02:13 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Nuno J. Silva did opine thusly:
> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:32:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> That was my point earlier. With computers changing, nothing will ever > >>> be finished. There will always be something that has to be added in as > >>> new things come out. I still wonder where computers will be in say 10 > >>> or 20 years. > >> > >> If you'd asked that 10 or 20 years ago, the answer, as far as booting is > >> concerned, would have been "exactly the same as now". > > > > So we don't have new and faster processors? Larger hard drives? > > Faster DVD type media? More memory that is usable? I can think of a > > LOT of things that have changed in just the past ten years. > > Well, I think it's still possible to use INT13 for disk access :-) You horrible person. I just went 13 years without hearing that thing's name mentioned not even once. You have just broken that winning streak. You are a horrible person. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
