Certainly understand. Change is good however (as Dilbert says, "You go first!") and DOS had its own set of problems/limitations (how many different memory managers did we have to load to get anything to work above 64K?
Whew, if I ever am forced to use DOS again I will chop my fingers off. Over on the RTTY reflector there is periodic rhapsodizing about RITTY, the first soundcard RTTY program (that is still probably better at decode than any other program out there). The crap we had to go thru to load CDROm drivers in the System.bat file and definition of system variables and all that were so odious that I think, like childbirth, we have purged them from our brains. There was a reason we celebrated when Win95 came out (there are those who think its the best and everything after is crap) and then XP (there are those who think its the best and everything after ...) and now Win7. Everything in the middle of those releases, however, everyone thought was crap HI HI! Anyway, I thought Tim "The Great Ellisoni" answered the questions as clearly as possible! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Ted Trostle <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not mean to hijack this thread, but Brad's thought hits home. > > I loved DOS and I would embrace it again. It was neat. There were DOS books > with written definitions and examples. Everyone had to use the same rules > or > things just crashed or ran wrong. Now today we have Windows and Linux which > is somewhat like a cousin of DOS. In its day DOS basically was all things > to all computer folks, but now Windows is just a convoluted mess that no > one > understands. I have often wondered how a programmer in Bombay or Oregon can > understand what I need or want a computer to do for me? I feel I end up > with > a DVD full of useless extra stuff that gets loaded without my approval that > slows down the CPU and hogs too much memory. > > So I am making a slow transition to Linux. At least there with the open > source concept and info I can design a function that I want. > > I'll understand if this post is killed...I had to just rant a bit. > > I hope someone answers Brad's questions. > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Brad A. Steffler <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > 1. With respect to Win 7 64 bit, what is a legacy driver? As opposed to > > what other type/kind of kind of driver? > > > > 2. Is a 1394 bus driver different from a 1394 driver? > > > > 3. What is the Flex firewire driver? How does it relate to a legacy, or > > other, driver. I assume that firewire driver and 1394 driver refer to the > > same thing. Is this correct? Differing names for the (possibly) same > thing > > is confusing my 62 year old brain. > > While I used to be a Fortran IV and C programmer, the nuances of Windows > > (Microsoft) arcana and the required vocabulary and nomenclature is a bit > > daunting. If they all mean the same thing, is it possible to use > consistent > > terminology? > > > > 73 and drowning in OS verbiage, > > > > Brad A. Steffler > > KE4XJ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > > [email protected] > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > > > > > -- > You cannot change history, but you can make history! > Education is the only legal cure for stupidity. > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
