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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10577 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5170 comp.unix.bsd:13116 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5914 biz.sco.general:9464 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!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <2em4ds$n22@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2eqqq0$mns@u.cc.utah.edu> <1993Dec17.031723.19536@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 23:01:12 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec17.230112.24503@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 26 In article <2errm1$b9l@vanbc.wimsey.com>, sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) says: +--------------- | In article <1993Dec17.031723.19536@kf8nh.wariat.org>, | Brandon S. Allbery <bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org> wrote: | >wrote a driver for it. (SCO cannot reasonably hope to keep up with the | >ludicrous number of different hardware implementations in the PC marketplace. | >Neither can anyone else, Linux and *BSD included.) | | What SCO does is to work with major board vendors to ensure that SCO drivers | are available. +--------------- Granted. But the emphasis is on "major". *I* don't expect SCO to keep track if someone down the street from me starts up a basement operation building SCSI controllers (or video boards, etc.) with some strange interface used by nobody else --- unless it becomes popular enough to warrant such support, or 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. ++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...)