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- From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: DAT drive on 835, help please
- Message-ID: <1547@hcshh.hcs.de>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 09:10:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.121536.8546@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> <7371164@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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- In <7371164@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> kinsell@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell) writes:
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- >In comp.sys.hp, mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at (Michael Haberler) writes:
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- >> I wonder when HP will finally get its act together on this one. It's
- >> slowly getting ridiculous.
-
- >HP has been shipping since early 1988 SCSI interfaces that work with a
- >variety of devices, first on S300, then S400 and now S700 machines.
-
- thats great ! hp fullfilled it's commitment to open systems ! well done !
-
- >Please
- >keep in mind that hardcoding lists of supported peripherals in the driver
- >is unique to the S800 machines.
-
- uhh, baaad !!! hp failed to fullfill it's commitment to open systems !
-
- do you think, just because some people needed more horsepower and bought
- an 800, they don't need the promised openness ???
-
- come on, we don't need a closed proprietary open system, change that damned
- harcoded scsi driver !
-
- tired on that subject,
- hellmuth
-
-
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- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe
- hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486
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