Request for simplified instructions for downloading and installing .tar.gz applications - Ventoy

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 13 08:26:48 UTC 2022


On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 08:02 +0700, Olivier wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf writes:
> > A tape
> > cassette is a kind of USB stick alike thing to record music.
> 
> A tape cassette is the next design for an HDD, where the head is kept
> fixed, removing the need for all the head arm, parking,
> etc. shenanigans.
> 
> This has been acheived by keeping the magnetic strip straight instead of
> being circular. That also simplify the problem of different block size
> or number of blocks alongs different tracks because there is only one
> track left and the head/track speed is constant.

Joking apart, maybe the density does increase that immensely that it
overcomes winding. Who knows? For good reasons serial interfaces were
replaced by parallel interfaces. I would never have dreamed that years
later parallel interfaces were replaced by serial interfaces.





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