I agree the present IBM platform has been around over a decade.
MS does not control the platform but they do control the OS and they
can be more proactive in getting hardware folks to change.
I give the article that much.
I remember when I had to start dumping my old AT style cases when ATX
came in. that has been slowly upgraded to include new stuff.
I know Intel tried to come out with a new BTX format, but that did
not get a lot of foothold.
The BIOS issue is another thing, and I would hope that a better way
of managing the system resources could be done.
That really does need to be updated.
Stewart
At 10:15 AM 3/11/2010, you wrote:
Apple relased the first intel/EFI based mac in 2006. Again this is much
easier when you control the entire platform as Apple does.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> That is not just an MS issue but also a hardware manufacture issue.
>
> The largest consumer drives right now are 1.5 TB. If I remember XP will be
> non supported in a few years.
>
> I expect MS will come up with a programming fix for this.
>
> XP was released when? I do not think they thought far enough in the future
> to see the limitations of Disk size that are mentioned.
>
> I am Glad that Mac's do not have this, but they also have been releasing
> more new releases of their OS that Windows have.
>
> Also the Intel Mac is how old?
>
> Stewart
>
>
>
>
> At 09:47 AM 3/11/2010, you wrote:
>
>> Tom, I was happy to read that OS X does not have this issue
>> (accommodates sectors larger than 512 bytes). The article explained
>> this as a BIOS issue in Windows and said Vista, W7 have work-around
>> fixes. MS has not endorsed replacing BIOS with EFI, have they?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mark Snyder
>>
>
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