Wow... I can't believe you trusted something MS said in *1998*. Didn't you learn from *everyone* else's experience with MS, over the previous -- what, 15 years?? >In 1998 (our first USB project) we wrote device drivers for Win'98 to >talk to the embedded medical device that we designed. >Based on MS's recommendations, we wrote for the WDM model instead of the >Win'95 style drivers because "drivers written to the WDM spec will be >compatible with future MS OSes" (read Win2k) > >So, we did as MS recommended, and sure enough, when Win2k came out >NOTHING WORKED! MS changed the driver model (just a bit ... but a bit >incompatible means nothing works). ... >I may be in the minority, but I really favor stability over flashiness, >and version interopability over features. You're in a good minority -- NASA, for example, still uses 486 *chips*! One of the problems of the MS tweaking is that major new software all tends, increasingly, to be written by MS (which, alone, can be sure it won't be obsoleted by the next OS change). I refuse to give up my excellent, working, mostly interoperable software. I am very worried about how I am going to port my software to the wearable PC I've been awaiting since June 1998, since it (software) probably won't install or run properly under XP, or whatever other OS's are offered with the machine. Can anyone tell me how impossible it will be to take a wearable (such as OQO or Antelope's model), strip out the existing OS, and replace it with, say, NT? Will I have serious driver issues for absolutely everything in the machine? In fact, my workhorse b&w laser printer is the old HP LJ4, which only has a parallel port (but my media costs are only about 3 cents/page, for as long as I can continue to find cartridges on eBay). Will I have to buy a new printer, since these machines (and their extensions/cradles) probably won't have a parallel port? Cheers -- Carol -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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