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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10567 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5167 comp.unix.bsd:13111 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5900 biz.sco.general:9435 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <2em4ds$n22@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com> <1993Dec17.230112.24503@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2etrnt$91@vanbc.wimsey.com> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 16:10:03 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec18.161003.29718@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 25 In article <2etrnt$91@vanbc.wimsey.com>, sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) says: +--------------- | In article <1993Dec17.230112.24503@kf8nh.wariat.org>, | Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org> wrote: | }In article <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com>, sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) says: | }| What SCO does is to work with major board vendors to ensure that SCO drivers | }| are available. | } | }unless the vendor chooses to write SCO drivers. That was my point: there's a | }lot of strange hardware out there in the PC world, and nobody can keep track | }of *all* of it. | | Was this meant to a point for or against :-) +--------------- Neither; it was correcting a misunderstanding about what I originally said. If it's a point *against* anything, it's against the proliferation of incompatible hardware in the PC market. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder. (seen on the Net...)