On Mar 24, 1996 at 22:24, Brenton Vettoretti of 3:711/934.7 wrote:

 BV> Yeah. Life's a bitch and then you marry one.

Your wife doesn't read your email behind your back, does she?  ;-)

 BV> Nope, it don't work as advertised. Even though the Award BIOS reports
 BV> that it has initialised it as a PnP card, the SB software fails to
 BV> initialise it properly under DOS unless the PnP manager has been loaded.

Maybe the drivers are only required for the SB-supplied software;  tried
running something like a DOS game without 'em?  Surely Windows wouldn't
need the DOS drivers, so maybe you can just dispense with 'em?

 BV> The Adaptec drivers have grown to. Bloody Hell, someone ought to
 BV> take these programmers who write device drivers and skin them.

:-)

 BV> BTW, all this crap about PnP is totall bullshit. You've still got to
 BV> configure the stuff except now you do it in software and you have less
 BV> control and bloated drivers lying around consuming valuable resources.
 BV> Obviously Micro$haft played a part in this fiendish plot, it sux toxic
 BV> waste. The world is being sold a crock of shit.

ROFL!!  Cut it out, you're killin' me!  :-)  :-)

 DB>> Did you straighten out that microphone issue?
 BV> Yeah. I bought a spare :(

Oh well.

 BV> Hey. You never know, Bob's might go queer one day :)

;-)

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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