Re: AOL, Thank You

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From: brian moore
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00

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On 7 Dec 1998 01:37:34 GMT, 
 who? <jkatz@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
> Guilty as charged. And it's not just for games. When 3com released a flash
> update for my x2 sportster, it was a win32 .EXE. The thing wouldnt even
> run properly with NT 4. I had to use win98 to upgrade it.  When
> Dell releases main board bios updates, I have no choice but to resort to
> DOS. My NIC came with a setup disk, that guess what, runs under DOS (and
> DR-DOS didnt quite cut it).  There appears to be a rather large number of
> tasks that MS really does have a monopoly over.  Yes, I realize that there
> are ways around these problems, but for a single user, practical choices
> are rather limited.

You know what's really sad?  They could make a Linux 'cramdisk' type
thing with the kernel and 'init' set to be their configuration program.
Then you'd need -no- specific OS to configure your hardware: just stick
in the disk and hit reset and you've got the 3c5x9 configuration program
or whatever.

Anyone could use it, whether the OS on their HD was Linux, NT, Win3.1,
Win9x, BeOS, whatever...

If only more hardware makers had a clue.

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From: bem@news.cmc.net (brian moore)
Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You
Date: 1998/12/07
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