Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:38:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matt Edwards <insane1@geocities.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <199901011838.LAA13736@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199901011708.BAA97067@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.981230102455.11992A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> <199901011708.BAA97067@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> > Perhaps I'm missing a technology theory here, but why take a fast(er) > > bus architecture and put a device on it that wasn't ever close to > > exceeding the old architecture? > > It's all about control.... by Microsoft of course. Not only M$. Intel as well. > That's what the windows > print system and winmodems etc are really all about.. Offloading the > brains into a piece of software that Microsoft controls and will never be > useable on something other than a Windows box. It's their way of making > sure it's always more expensive to run something other than windows > (including unix, OS/2, etc) and to keep a hold on the user by making sure > they cannot upgrade from windows. It's a very slick strategy.. They are > forcing the peripheral manufacturers to do their dirty work by making it > difficult to compete with the people who have submitted to microsoft > already. Also realize that by offloading the processing onto the processor it more quickly causes it to become outdated, so you need a faster processor. This is not 'paranoia' here, as I have a # of friends that work for Intel, and this is a published strategy of theirs that happens to mesh with M$'s vision. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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