Nate Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem > > is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter. > > There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel. > Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them, notably the strict var scope > checking.
That's a good idea. For them. For FreeBSD, it means eating the pain, so that Intel gets what it wants: technical people bitching at vendors to conform to the standard, while not impacting the vast majority of Windows and other non-technical customers. For Intel, this is a win-win. For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
