Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Michal Jaegermann <> | | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:00:36 -0600 (MDT) |
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Gregory Maxwell wrote: > NT is 'cross platform' too. All it should take is a simple recompile > to nativly compile correctly written code for Alpha.. But people don't > do it.. The existance of emu86 hinders this further.. Most vendors will > just say: Just run it with the emulator.. > > The binary UDI vendors will not compile for other platforms.
It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver" for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles, essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb. Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver available for that hardware from any source.
Michal
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