Re: [PCI] CLI in OS9?

[darm0k]

At 11:01 AM -0700 09/15/2004, Jeff Garrison wrote:
on 9/15/04 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 > At 09:22 AM -0700 09/15/2004, Jeff Garrison wrote:
 >> I have a 7300 with an 8500 motherboard. It's got an accelerator which it
 recognizes without a driver. I inserted a better video card which was
 recognized and used instantly. NO internet D/L'ing and rooting through a
 device manager.
 Your upgrades simply conformed to Apple's specs, so the built-in
 drivers were used.
Which spotlights my general hint that the Mac OS is a far more  elegant and
simple GUI because the complexities are built-in but hidden from view of the
average user.
Compared to the PC hardware setups and Windows OS of it's general era, it's
a walk in the park.  Hell, it's a skip in the park.
If I build a piece of hardware for a PC that conforms exactly to MS' 
specs, the same thing will happen -- the built-in driver will be used.

While your example does show that the Mac OS (classic and X) is 
easier to build hardware for, because of the published low-level 
hardware interface specs, this is a core OS functionality, *not* a 
user interface issue (which is the subject of this thread).

- Dan.
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