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In article <dQF6wo5aSrgG085yn@ibm.net>, manixon@ibm.net (Mark Nixon) wrote:
> Absolutely. My niece got a 486-80 for her confirmation with sound card,
> CD ROM, SVGA card and WFWG preloaded. When her father set it up, it ran
> VGA instead of SVGA, cause the right drivers weren't installed. No one at
> the store had bothered to point this out, so they were looking at an
> *extremely* crappy Windows interface instead of just a crappy one. When
> I installed 800*600 256, they all went "Wow".
> 
> The point is not that the video drivers weren't installed, it's that
> they weren't informed of it.
> 
> The video drivers on my WARP preload weren't installed either. But I was
> *told*, and the salesman showed me where in the manual to look, and gave
> pe a printout of the README file, and told me to call if I had problems,
> and they'd walk me through it. As a matter of fact, I asked him if they
> could partition the HD with a 200 MB c: and the rest HPFS, and install
> OS/2 on the HPFS partition. No sweat, come back in a couple of hours. I
> did, and this machines been humming ever since.

Being informed or not informed is simply the particular store you went
to.  Another store might tell of the windos drivers and another not tell
of the OS/2 drivers.

I have an idea.  How about a machine that doesn't need drivers to be
loaded?  You just stick the stuff on your desk, give it power and boom, it
works.  Display configufed automatically.  Change monitors and boom, it
works.

There is a lot of talk about the first-time user.  Video drivers don't go
well with any new user.

-Ryan Krueger
-RSKrueger@TaylorCorp.com