Ah, yes. The S100 bus. I was writing software for a communications
company, (no longer in existence AFAIK), latest hire on the team, when
my desk phone rings... It's a salesdrone. He want's to have my
assurance that the SSC, (a PC based product), can have a module written
to support a four port MUX card, because he just sold both to a
customer. My reply was the software can be written, but the MUX board
is S-100 Bus, which wasn't compatible with an AT bus PC. He was
insistent that I should take responsibility to make it work. I
eventually told him he should take that up with the electrical
engineering group. Obviously he wanted me to just say yes, to get him
off the hook for selling incompatible products.
On 7/11/2013 1:40 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013, [email protected] wrote:
Same thing's happened in other industries. Everyone wants you to
buy their products exclusively, not mix-and-match. Everything's
proprietary these days, by design.
No, no, no, you misunderstand. Everything is standardized. It's just
that there are so many standards to choose from.
For those of you who remember "S-100", here's a little treat:
http://lyrics.wikia.com/Frank_Hayes:S-100_Bus
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