Peter,
All very true as visionary but doesn’t sound like the reality in which we
have to work every day.
You’re right, the common practice of patching doesn’t make it right but if
the OS producer doesn’t give you an alternative you are going to do anyway.
I wish we didn’t have to but fact is in a competitive market, when one does
it the others WILL follow.
Stability is nice to have. Doesn’t your car need maintenance from time to
time. Everybody knows car makers could build more bugless cars (at a price).
But they don’t because they know what they can sell at the least common cost
with the biggest gain. MONEY!!!
When it comes to the future I think everybody would like to see those
improvements happen. But again I LIVE in the present and I need to MAKE my
living with what I have now. (I think someone else also pointed that out.)
Klaus P.
ATi
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter G. Viscarola [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Montag, 6. August 2001 18:58
To: ‘Klaus Gerlicher’
Cc: ntdev redirect
Subject: RE: RE:Re: AW: RE: [ntdev] Mapping scattered pages into process
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The way to sell more computers is to include
an even faster graphics board.
I don’t agree.
All of the major graphics
vendors use such tricks and hacks. (examples: jump table
patching in OpenGL, AGP support for NT 4.0)
That doesn’t make it a good idea. OR even a responsible practice.
Hacking the OS is bad, one point for you, but sometimes
customers want features that are not otherwise feasible
without creating potentially dangerous code. Did you ever
turn your head to see the customers standpoint?
Sure… The customer standpoint is PRECISELY my issue. You can’t do ANYTHING
on your system… Play games, do online publishing, video editing, or
anything, if your system has crashed.
The way to sell more computers is to make them more stable.
If “customers want features that are not otherwise feasible without creating
potentially dangerous code” then there’s a problem, right? Don’t we, as
professional engineers, not have a responsibility to the user community
other than to wantonly pander to every irresponsible desire?
That responsibility might be to advocate for safe methods to achieve
customer requirements within an appropriate operating system framework.
IF your kids want to eat nothing but candy, do you let them?
Peter
OSR
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