🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:23:56, dmccoy@REMOVE_MEmnsinc.com (David H. McCoy) 
wrote:

> In article <Yqzh521VLZKl-pn2-r6dxd1HHFSpM@slip129-37-55-
> 102.ca.us.ibm.net>, osbo082@deletemeibm.net says...
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:10:47, dmccoy@REMOVE_MEmnsinc.com (David H. McCoy) 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > To chime in, I gave my mother a 166 Cyrix Gx with a 1 gig HD, 32 megs of 
> > > Ram, 33.6 modem and a 15" monitor for just under $800.  She installed some 
> > > software for her grandson(my nephew) but had a couple of problems.  My 
> > > uncle also had a few problems with some games for his son.  The common 
> > > element in both was the fact that they were using software that listed DOS 
> > > 5.0 in addition to Windows 95 as a supported platform.  The Windows 95 
> > > only software did not give either problems.  I gave them both a quick 
> > > lesson on the difference between software that uses DOS drivers and 
> > > Windows 95 drivers.  In the end, the simplest thing to say was, if it has 
> > > DOS on the box, leave it alone, if it has Windows 95 only, buy it.  
> > > 
> > 
> > Gee, I thought I saw a post around here from you bragging about how well 
> > Microsoft supported its older technologies.  I must have been dreaming.
> 
> Bob, please stop chiming your ignorance to the world.  MS is not 
> responsible for DOS device drivers written by a third party company.  If 
> some game makers preprietary video standard or sound driver is screwy, it 
> s clearly the game makers fault.
> 
> Even my mother who cares nothing for the OS wars was able to easily 
> install Windows 95 entertainment software.
> 
> In otherwords, you weren't dreaming, just hallucenating, as usual.

Well we all know that you are a first class moron, but you don;t have to go
around proving it all the time David.

Obviously, if we were talking about this driver or that driver you might be
correct.  But you clearly outlined a situation of classes of drivers DOS vs
Win95.  For one class to be flakier than the other class, what you need is 
either inferior driver support on the OS or an inferior DDK.

Either case demonstrates that you can't add 2 and 2 and come up with 4.



Bob O - Computing for fun