Fwd: Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)

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Subject:     Re: CAN A MAC MULTI-TASK (The Whole Truth)
From:        Eric Bennett <ericb@pobox.com>
Newsgroups:  comp.sys.mac.advocacy
             comp.sys.mac.misc
             comp.sys.mac.apps
Date:        Mon, 03 Nov 1997 14:10:26 -0400

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In article <34a28f18.139444921@news.pdq.net>, at*dcorn*at@pdq.net (dcorn)
wrote:


> I suggest that you insert an AWE64 Gold sound card into your NT box,
> and tell me what happens.  (Answer:  Nothing.)  Then add a Supra
> 56kFlex modem and tell me what happens.  (Answer:  Nothing.)  Then go
> to your NT CDROM and find the folder called cdrom\drivers\pnpisa and
> install it.  Then add the above.  They'll be autodetected and
> autoadded to your system.  I've done it.  The Awe64 and Supra modem
> documentation instructs the user to install said PnP software.  Pretty
> strange thing to do if it doesn't exist, isn't it?

Funny how "plug and play" seems to imply that you "plug" and you "play." 
Not "plug" then "install drivers" then "play."  Of course, having said
that, no OS has this purest PnP for all devices, but some are better than
others.

-- 
Eric Bennett ( ericb@pobox.com ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Cornell University

Microsoft now has the ability to virtually annihilate any competitive product
it wants by bringing it into the next version of Windows. There's evidence that
they are aggressively seeking to extend that monopoly to the Internet, and
policy makers have to be concerned about it.  Congress has to strengthen the
antitrust laws from time to time, and this could be one of those times. 
- Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah

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