>> Intel "giveth" NOTHING, and followeth only "All we want is MONEY!", >> same as Gates & Co.! In my opinion, absolutely NO excuse for AHCI >> that a better-written Windows driver could NOT have solved, but for >> Intel as-always wanting to sell-Sell-SELL new chips! > > In fairness, not every person is truly as diligent, intelligent, and > experienced as you are. So while "in theory" somebody could rewrite > Windows drivers or whatever to be 10x faster or smaller or better, > it's probably just wishful thinking ...
My Thanks for your personal compliments, but I still DO believe there MUST be someone at Intel or Microsoft who COULD have done a better job with SATA/IDE, rather than simply "throwing up their hands" (all maybe 3000 of them!!) and saying "We need more HARDWARE"! Or, it really IS an "Intel conspiracy" to sell more chips; wouldn't be the first time!! >> ... and (B) AHCI is RIDICULOUSLY complex, the obvious results of >> it being designed by a [MISERABLE!] "ANSI committee" which tried >> to satisfy EVERYBODY and in the end satisfied NOBODY, as-usual! > > Yes, unpopular standards by committee are no better than no standard. > But sometimes compromise is all you can get. You win some, you lose > some. Note that I said "RIDICULOUSLY complex", and as above, I have REASONS for believing "No AHCI at ALL" could have been made to WORK! >> Hardware improvements like those you mention will never "hurt" any >> existing software, only make it faster. > > Not always the case, sometimes software misunderstands or interacts > badly with more RAM or faster cpu. Also the timings for cpu > instructions change, so what was once faster (e.g. 186 optimizations > [ENTER, LEAVE] vs. 8086) is now "comparatively" slower (to its > counterpart, e.g. 2.5 times slower). "Rare" circumstances. They have occurred, but I doubt that Intel allows such situations very often. > It's true, assembly will always win, but few are willing to go that > far ... Absolutely "known" in the 1980s or 1990s, when U.S. colleges virtually "gave up" on finding ENOUGH "Slept Through High-School" BRATS with 1/2 a brain, that might even be CONSIDERED for assembly-language software! THAT, and ONLY that, is why most U.S. colleges now teach only "C"! I used to joke about their college degrees being "B. S. Chicken. Sh**."; not-much of a JOKE, any more!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
