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Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 8/3/2006 at 12:11 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
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> 
>>A floppy driver?  Why?  This isn't making sense to me at the moment (gotta
>>go get that second cup of coffee I guess...)
> 
> 
> 'Cause the OS says you have to.  There was a huge grumble of displeasure in
> the NT community after MS assured developers that NT 4.0 kernel-mode
> drivers would work just fine with 2K.  And they did--until RC1, when, just
> a month or two before official launch, you discovered that you had to
> implement the complete litany of power management services or you'd get a
> BSOD.  
> 
> I haven't even looked at Vista requirements yet--and probably won't until
> Vista's released because MS is making the same claim "You can use XP
> drivers on Vista".  Sometimes, it seems to me that OS software at Microsoft
> is created as a sort of involuntary spasm.
> 
> But as to why software is buggy and complex, consider ACPI.  One of the
> densest, most incomprehensible, violated-in-practice "standards" that
> exists on the face of the planet.  Or, consider the way the already-complex
> USB standard has "bloomed" since 1.0.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> 
The ACPI "implementation" on my machine is either physically damaged, or 
so fucking broken that there is not a single OS in existence that can 
use it.

Good job HP, for making my system break with just about every bootable 
CD unless I bend over ass-backards with a 5-mile long bootloader command 
which breaks what little that does run.

By the way, if anyone's intrested, the system is a Pavilion a414x.
-- 
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
	-- Linus Torvalds