This is sort of wandering OT, but I wanted to react to something: On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 21:36 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > The other end of the spectrum is Microsoft who tries to come out with > something brand new every few years, and they don't care if nothing > works anymore.
Bog knows I'm rarely a defender of Microsoft, but I think they do a pretty good job of carrying legacy interfaces forward. Vista is as late as it is (as was XP, and NT before that) partially due to the device driver and BIOS and API baggage they've accumulated. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
