A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one ...

I'm looking for an application that windows (XP) would see as a floppy drive, sorta like Nero's virtual CD program. I'm trying to rid myself of that legacy device, and use bootable CD's instead.

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.