True. No one would be expected to try all combinations<br>
of hardware. But "they" could still specify the items they<br>
know work. M$ ( Microsoft ) clearly provides untold drivers<br>
so that its OSes work ( I use the words OSes and work<br>
loosely here.... ) on as much hardware as possible. Sure,<br>
M$ has the resources ( a.k.a. a monopoly ) to do this,<br>
but it's important to have a few reference systems that are<br>
know to work well. If a developer just happens to have a<br>
PC made up of oddball parts, that could, and maybe does<br>
now and then, cause a lot of trouble for others, and <br>
perhaps give the product a bad reputation.<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
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On 5/16/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> As a general comment, it appears that vendors<br>> of all stripes might want to be more explicit about<br>> what hardware their offerings have been tried on.
<br>> Sun Microsystems used to provide an extensive<br>> list of hardware that was known to work with its<br>> products - probably still does. This could save a<br>> potential user the ordeal of having to sort out
<br>> hardware issues first thing if that is not their interest.<br><br>Just not possible most of the time. Are you aware of the number of<br>individual PC components in the wild? Simply aquiring the hardware<br>isn't feasable. Alternatively, every attempt at a distributed
<br>hardware database has been thwarted by a vast number of<br>less-than-knowledgable contributors and the incredibly low signal to<br>noise ratio that follows.<br><br>--tim<br>_______________________________________________
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