[HN Gopher] Linux 6.4 Slated to Start Removing Old, Unused and U...
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       Linux 6.4 Slated to Start Removing Old, Unused and Unmaintained
       Pcmcia Drivers
        
       Author : mikece
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-03-10 19:48 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | duffyjp wrote:
       | Normally I'm sad to see old hardware support removed, but the
       | last time I actually used a PCMCIA card was CF card reader on a
       | G4 Powerbook. Newer laptops I've owned have had them but why
       | would use it? Everything is built on or a USB dongle away. Good
       | move in my book.
        
       | AdamJacobMuller wrote:
       | Sad but an obviously correct choice.
       | 
       | USB-C/USB3/Thunderbolt/USB-3.2 SuperSpeed 4x4 is obviously a
       | better choice for literally everything, nothing quite beat the
       | chunkiness of a PCMCIA card. The creative ways people made
       | attachments work (e.g. a pop-out connector for an rj45/rj11 port)
       | was great.
        
       | rongenre wrote:
       | PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
        
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