From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:45:31 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:13321 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3A633716.9EA1FDF5@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:44:54 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: "Dunlap, Randy" , "'H. Peter Anvin'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > URRRK. I get a feeling these specs are either there to make life extra > > difficult for programmers, because the people that design them are too > > stupid to tie their own shoes, or because they want nothing but M$ > > factory-installed to work. > > The page is titled "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Microsoft Windows Family of > Operating Systems," so what do you expect? > Kind of says it all, doesn't it? -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/