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My view on yesterday's posting by leowic2001-11-07 07:31:54
  Hardware by Kickstart 2001-11-07 09:10:32
> 1. We are going to write a piece of software that
> will run on almost all hardware made.

As long as it's only x86 hardware, which at the time of Windows early creation was not the only or best architecture in existence. Given the opportunity at various stages to port Windows over to Alpha or some other architechure, they declined.

> 2. We don't care what combinations of hardware you
> have on your computer,

Yeah, they do care, as stated above.

> 3. It's O.k. if you don't if know much about setting
> up you computer, our installation process will take care of it.

Linux is also at this stage for the most part.

> 4. And we are going to do this without looking at
> your computer once.

The software takes good, hard looks at your computer. Install windows, then change your motherboard and see how well it handles it.

Kickstart
[ Reply ]
    On point 4 by radagast302001-11-07 09:37:56
      mobo + CPU changes and Linux by SD Maruko-kun2001-11-07 10:17:42

 

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