> Just my five cents of thought:
Customer demands, customer gets. That’s the way I would see it. Without
taking full advantages of what the hardware can deliver, noone in the
industry would sell anything. There’s fierce competition out there and
that makes you use every trick in the book. Now, does it make the system
more unstable? I don’t think so.Most of the time you just find ways of using a feature which wasn’t
included in the OS. Let me give you an example: The Windows 2000 AGP
support doesn’t give you a way of scatter/gather locking whole user
bitmaps into memory and transfer them with AGP 4x speed. What can you do?
Wait until MS sees they have created a monster spec for their AGP support,
one that is unflexible. Or do we do this on our own? NT 4.0 didn’t even
have any support for AGP but still all AGP graphics boards run with AGP
protocol enabled? How’d that happen? At least not with official OS
support.And still those system are used by millions of users (just ignoring the
facts that some board vendors always build screwed up mobos). And those
users are happy with the product. They use it everyday and I should say
they’re stable though there’s certainly a lot of workarounds (that’s what
I’d call what MS means by partying with something) to squeeze the last bit
of perfromance out of the hardware.And just let me counter your rant a bit: I think there’s a lot of
intelligent driver writers out there who know what they’re doing (and that
rant does insult them). They probably even know better than MS themselves.
Proper ways result in a monopoly of technology. What MS does is certainly
not always a good, proper, stable, well performing, secure and cutting
edge approach.Klaus P. Gerlicher
SW design engineer
Fire GL professional graphics (a division of ATi)
Tel. +49-8151-266420
Mob. +49-173-3794003
xxxxx@ATi.com
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