> I don't know ... Well, Mike, at least you ADMIT to it!
> ... but if there was a utility to analyze the tone and content > of messages and rank them I think that a lot of your messages > to this list would be labeled "aggressive/hostile". Tough tomatoes. If you don't like my tone, for which I have my reasons, then don't read my posts. > You have ranted against BIOS manufacturers, IDE chipset vendors, > software companies, other open source software projects, people > who don't speak English natively, etc. Never without a reason. Mostly, as was true of my 35 years in assembly-language (plus 11 more in retirement), it is because I get to be "The poor bastard who must MAKE IT WORK"!! My "good friend" Ehlert told me about 2003 that he never thought a driver like UDMA (evolved into UIDE) could ever be written. I did it, and in doing so I had to "shovel" a lot of just-plain SH*T caused by other people's BAD specifications, design ERRATA, etc. That, my "good friend" Mike, is why I speak so agressively AGAINST such trash. If I say the entire Wintel consortium needs a carload of ExLax, like Apple and others are PROVING to them now, it is NEVER without reasons, reasons I am always "stuck" programming AROUND!! > The entire combined software/hardware industry does not exist > just to piss you off ... No, Mike, only you do ... > If there is a problem with VirtualBox then I am sure that there > is a developer who will listen ... Fine, Mike, then you speak to them. I do not use "VirtualBox" as I still have a "real" PC running a "real" DOS kernel, not a 32-bit system that needs any such "emulator". So I am not-interested in working on an "emulator" I neither need, want, nor like! Perhaps YOU can convince them to reinstate code that would have set 2 bits in 1 byte (as Eric found DELETED in their sources!), and this mess would never have occurred. Surely you are up to telling Almighty Oracle what their error was -- GO for it! > I will speak heresy, but if it really matters that much then maybe > the correct thing to do is to have two different versions of the > driver - a "correct" one and one that works in "broken" environments > like VirtualBox. Your privilege again, Mike. My drivers are not "GNU" nor any other "licensed" form of open-source. Still, I do provide their sources, and that by implication says you are free to "fix" them as you wish. Again, GO for it! I will continue to offer UHDD and UIDE drivers which follow the BIOS conventions for handling diskettes, as I understand such conventions to be, which you refer to above as the "correct" drivers. Your own "broken environment" drivers can be as you wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
