11 Aug
2011
11 Aug
'11
5:23 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
Well, I woill happily agree that the hardware design
is a right kludge
Not being a Brit, I'd call it a WRONG kludge.
(the language I would like to use to describe it is
not suitable for a
public list :-)),
You would be shocked at what is considered acceptable here and
not there,
and vice versa.
but it is surely the program writer's
responsibility to
ensre the program runs on said hardare under all conditions.
The insidious aspect of it was that most of us did not understand the
"inner workings" well enough to know that there could be a problem until
it bit us. In my case, I was lucky enough to have been curious enough to
go through all of the error return codes of INT13h, and ask myself, "what
the hell is THAT about??"