Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> In which way is suddenly removing a USB flash drive different from 
> suddenly ejecting a floppy disk?

  It's not, which is the point. If you remove a USB drive without flushing,
you will probably get data loss.

> So why is it perfectly OK to cache a USB flash drive, but completely 
> unthinkable to cache a floppy disk?

  Why should operating systems switch to a less safe method of writing to
floppy disks than in the past? And why even bother changing anything given
that floppy disks are a dead medium?

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                                                          - Warp

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