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- From: Colin Irwin <cirwin@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Subject: Re: **SyQuest EZ and Executor**
- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
- cc: executor@ardi.com
- In-Reply-To: <ufn35z3h32.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>
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- On 2 Mar 1996, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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- > >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Bell <cbell@sol.wf.net> writes:
- > In article <4h88q4$jq8@sol.wf.net> cbell@sol.wf.net (Chuck Bell) writes:
- >
- >
- > Chuck> Does anyone know if the SyQuest EZ drive, SCSI model,
- > Chuck> hooked to the parallel port of a PC with an Adaptec
- > Chuck> SCSI-to-parallel adapter can be read by and written to with
- > Chuck> Executor?
- >
- > Chuck> TIA,
- >
- > Chuck> Chuck
- >
- > I believe that some people have been able to get it to work and others
- > have not. I hope everyone who has tried will report their results,
- > since we're trying hard to pin down the reason why some people can use
- > Mac formatted media without problems while others get all sorts of
- > weird results.
- >
- > One thing we know is that our current sound implementation interferes
- > with the use of some peripherals on some systems. We're in the
- > process of rewriting the lowest level portion of our sound driver so
- > that this will not happen.
- >
- > We're not exactly flush with cash over here, but we may buy a zip
- > drive and an EZ SCSI drive for testing purposes. Of course if it
- > works here and doesn't work on other people's systems it will still be
- > hard for us to figure out what the problems are.
- >
- > NOTE: The Linux and NEXTSTEP versions of Executor do not have all
- > these problems. Once we've done them, the native Windows '95/Windows
- > NT and OS/2 ports won't have this trouble either. Programming DOS is
- > painful.
- >
- > --Cliff
- > ctm@ardi.com
- >
- >
- I all I'd like to say to this is that DOS is most probably the most
- painful OS to program in, and possible if you program around these
- deficiences you may get there on all systems. But I highly doubt it :-).
-
- Pity Microsoft didn't reengineer MS-DOS as the hard ware improved.
-
- Nevyn.
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