Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:29 -0500 (EST)


H. Peter Anvin writes:
> "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>>> URRRK. I get a feeling these specs are either there to make life extra
>>> difficult for programmers, because the people that design them are too
>>> stupid to tie their own shoes, or because they want nothing but M$
>>> factory-installed to work.
>>
>> The page is titled "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Microsoft Windows
>> Family of Operating Systems," so what do you expect?
>
> Kind of says it all, doesn't it?

It looks like we let Microsoft fill the design guide void.
If you were to write "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Linux Operating
System" and a pile of test code, then there would be an
alternative to point people at.

Complaining is pretty useless.

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