[Air-l] social network migration

[elw at stderr.org]

> To be fair, I think the concept of daisy-chaining was around long before 
> Firewire. I remember it with SCSI interfaces, for example.


We used to do it with serial cables... and parallel-port-based "Laplink" 
cables (thank you Traveling Software...).


> And I further take issue with the notion that crowded, unkempt hard 
> drives slow down a system.

They do, but fragmentation is no longer usually the reason.  Dozens or 
hundreds of abandoned, outdated, unused configuration files or registry 
entries often are....

--e