Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> >> All one really needs to do is read the spec. > > > Mike: > Having started in the pre-CP/M era, I've always been skeptical about how > faithful manufacturers are in honoring specifications. (I've got a box > full of old RS232 cables and adapters. No two of them are identical.) > -- cmg > You can say that again. I can remember S-100 cards that would not work together. Things didn't improve much with ISA cards. I even have some PCI cards that will not work together. It usually happens because they can save on costs by cutting a few corners. You end up with a product that works most of the time. When you get two products that do not work together, it is always the other guys fault. I have been down that road too many times. Then you run into things like Apple using DB-25 connectors for SCSI devices. Then some PC SCSI cards started doing the same thing. I have a SCSI card that has in the troubleshoot section something that say if the system will not boot after plugging in your printer, that you need to unplug the printer from the SCSI port, and plug it in the printer port... In an ideal world, reading the specs would be enough. In the real world, you can not count on things following the specs! Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
