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- From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.145616.5258@darkcube.radig.de>
- Sender: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
- References: <DOCONNOR.92Jul23085513@potato.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 14:56:16 GMT
- Lines: 72
-
- In article <DOCONNOR.92Jul23085513@potato.sedona.intel.com>
- doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- >
- > vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
- > ] In article <> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- > ] > In article <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu>,
- > ] mfrank@wilma.cs.wisc.edu (Matt Frank) writes:
- > ] >
- > ] > |> 1) Backwards compatability is a waste of everyones time.
- > ] >
- > ] > Fortunately for the vendors, consumers disagree with that statement.
- > ] > In millions.
- > ]
- > ] You're right. Fortunately *for the vendors*.
- >
- > Give me a break. Intel's employees would love to take off with a bold new
- > architecture that would be the pinnacle of microprocessor performance,
- > completely free of the baggage of the past.
- >
- > It's the CUSTOMERS who INSIST on compatability. Customers also
- > insist on performance. It's the hard-working 86 architects and
- > engineers who have to suffer and jump through hoops to deliver both.
- > I've got a lot of respect for those guys, and always have had.
- > And it's a good thing process technology keeps improving.
-
- > Perhaps Volker Herminghaus-Shirai is smarter than all those customers:
-
- Yes, I think that's not very hard.
-
- > maybe his freely-given opinion is somehow more important than the
- > "voting with their wallets" millions of PC buyers have done.
-
- PC-customers have been demanding an OS that would take advantege of their
- hardware since the AT came up. They didn't get it, although a migration to an
- 80286 protected-mode, later 80386-(now what's that mode called again?)OS would
- have been possible, if not 100% painless. They didn't get it for one of three
- reasons:
- 1) M$ was not able to deliver a decent OS: Likely, since they
- never did before (Xenix comes from AT&T, not M$).
- 2) IBM decided that customers don't want to hassle even with slight
- incompatibilities. They didn't mention the hassle customers
- get from software that has to act as an OS because there is
- no OS to do the elementary functions well.
- And besides, 640K is plenty for the rest of the century.:
- Also likely, from what we know of their /370-family.
- 3) (pathetic music on)
- The customers demanded that henceforth, software shall be
- compatible with the one and only, the real standard. Never
- shall we want an Operating System, especially not with such
- disgusting features like multitasking, networking, and virtual
- memory (Don't try telling me windows is *multitasking*, it's
- not even time-slicing). Each application shall use
- it's own drivers for each preipheral card supported. Never
- shall a driver for a peripheral be compatible with more than
- one single piece of software, the application it is delivered
- with. Always shalt thou upgrade all your drivers, and
- applications, and windowing software, and Operating System,
- whenever any of the aforementioned is upgraded.
- (pathetic music off)
-
- > But it's not important to Intel's bottom line.
-
- Yes, I guess their bottom line is the only thing intel is interested in.
- May I quote myself:
- > ] You're right. Fortunately *for the vendors*.
-
- Followups to alt.jokes.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)
-
- OK, no offensive .sig this time
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