t-jasonb@microsoft.UUCP (Jason Barnett) (10/27/88)
What is all of this stuff about people complaining that products are getting less and less compatable. It is the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer to maintain strict IBM compatability. The programmer can't be expected to test his/her program on every machine in existence. This has been just one of my opinions... - Jason Barnett
johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine) (10/28/88)
In article <1107@microsoft.UUCP> t-jasonb@microsoft.UUCP (Jason Barnett) writes: >What is all of this stuff about people complaining that products >are getting less and less compatable. It is the responsibility >of the hardware manufacturer to maintain strict IBM compatability. The >programmer can't be expected to test his/her program on every machine >in existence. Ah, now I understand the famous high quality of Microsoft software. By the way, I spent three years working on a PC product (Javelin) and we did indeed test it on every kind of PC that we could get our hands on. Despite our best efforts to make it as robust as possible, lots of 100% compatible machines turned out to be 80% compatible, and you can imagine that customers were not impressed when we explained that their 100% compatible machine wasn't. -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { bbn | think | decvax | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something Rome fell, Babylon fell, Scarsdale will have its turn. -G. B. Shaw