Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
Not a format war at all. Just stuff that people don't know about. I'd compare it to people who are booting their PCs with old HDDs, or an even worse case, FDD (someone must remember running DOS and Win 2.X from floppies), and just not knowing any better (or knowing of better/faster alternatives). Just like some people have no idea what RAM is or what more can do/does.
I can't imagine there's anyone left on the planet who starts up an operating system from a floppy disk - the obvious implication is that a floppy disk computer would be so behind in specs that it wouldn't even access the net.
Still plenty of people using hard disks, though, and plenty of new laptops and desktops still coming with HDDs instead of SSDs.