Well remember, it is never his fault for selling the wrong bits, it's you
fault for not making them compatible.
jm
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From: "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:58 PM
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: GESO - Bessaflex
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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