Both sides have their own historical reasons for keeping things the way they are.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard Disk manufacturers have > tried to make them wrong in this case. > > > On 18 April 2010 20:58, Olaf Siejka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am talking in general, about attempts to "correct Microsoft". >> >> 2010/4/18 breakoutbox <[email protected]> >> >> Olaf Siejka schrieb: >>> >>> Mainly for compatibility reasons. If Windows does it that way, so would >>>> do Windows apps and drivers, depending on it. If we change this default >>>> behaviour, even with introducing some kind of aliases for the previous one, >>>> we risk breakage, that would could be hard to determine/locate. When >>>> ReactOS >>>> gets stable enough, i see no obstacle to change this, but right now, let us >>>> not put too many mushrooms into single basket. >>>> >>>> >>> Hm, >>> >>> how does a change to these #define names probably risk breakage ? >>> >>> >>> #define _1MB (1024 * _1KB) >>> >>> in /trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ros-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> > > > > -- > Andrew Faulds (andrewros) > http://ajf.me/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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