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- From: wwt5491@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (TONER)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 04:00:18 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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- In article <316dd1d1.14192561@news.onramp.net>,
- David Corn <dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com> wrote:
- >On 10 Apr 1996 14:51:52 GMT,
- >wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- >wrote:
- >
- >>|> Sigh. On an Amiga, you cannot simply "copy a device driver to devs"
- >>|> and have it all work. If you think you can, you REALLY need to
- >>|> rethink things - there's a LOT more to it than that. Win95 is far
- >>|> easier to set up with another graphics card.
- >>
- >>Just guessing again, David?
- >
- >No. I'm fully aware of the install scripts. You miss the point,
- >perhaps deliberately. What the original poster wrote won't work.
- >
- >>Nicolai's right. If the setup is too complicated for Joe User, an installer script is
- >>included.
- >
- >I'd certainly hope so.
- >
- >>Can't see what's better with Win95 PnP, for that has been reported as faulty
- >>under certain conditions.
- >
- >The auto-install of peripherals? It's great.
-
- How so? I wroked in service of PCs for 3 months (college internship kinda)
- and never saw an auto install work. Had to have the installer let me tell it
- everything manually, and that had problems. Lots of systems I saw had flags
- on the Super IO card saying it was not present, wasn't working or the drivers
- weren't installed properly. Re-did it lots of times, tried other cards, etc.
- 95 is a retarded system. I would not use it. The store I worked at still
- recommends using 3.11 instead of 95 to all of its customers. I assume there
- is a reason to try not to sell something to people that ask for it...
-
- Bill
-