Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:29 -0500 (EST) |
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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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