5 May
2009
5 May
'09
12:23 p.m.
Dave,
There is no reason to turn on the hot and cold running nastiness and
sarcasm. I really thought you were above this sort of behavior.
I WAS NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE APPLICATION OR YOUR SUPPORT OF IT.
HOW MUCH CLEARER CAN I MAKE THIS?
If you are LOOKING for a confrontation, you've come to the wrong place.
Since things have gone so sour here ... yada yada yada...
Steve, dude, you are way over-reacting. No one is being nasty, nor
not-playfully-sarcastic. Let me take a quick shot at clarifying this
minor set of email-muddled misunderstandings, then I'll shut up about it.
Your original post ...
" but IMD does not recognize my Compaticard IV (why on earth does it
restrict you to drives A-D??). "
... if interpreted as such, does read like a bit of minor
complaining... specifically the "why on earth ... ??". Now, because
I've emailed/posted with you for a fairly long time now, I have a sense
of your style, and know that you were just exclaiming aloud without
meaning anything by it.
Similarly, Dave's responses:
"Why on earth did IBM define the PC with only enough bits in the drive
select/motor on register for 4 drives ... A-D are the standard drives
suspported by the hardware -- anything else needs "special drivers" and
I'm just not going there... But you can get a full refund with the
"DELETE" command so all is not lost."
and
" ... so instead of complaining about it, you can put in however much
time you think should have been put into supporting your special
hardware yourself!"
... I thought were hilarious, and while I don't know for sure, I took it
as he was just trying to be funny while expressing some very mild
flabbergastion over your exclamation about limitations of his program.