From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 1 10:43:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09480 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09470 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA07920; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:38:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA13736; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:38:01 -0700 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:38:01 -0700 Message-Id: <199901011838.LAA13736@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Wemm Cc: Bill Fumerola , lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matt Edwards , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem In-Reply-To: <199901011708.BAA97067@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <199901011708.BAA97067@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Perhaps I'm missing a technology theory here, but why take a fast(er) > > bus architecture and put a device on it that wasn't ever close to > > exceeding the old architecture? > > It's all about control.... by Microsoft of course. Not only M$. Intel as well. > That's what the windows > print system and winmodems etc are really all about.. Offloading the > brains into a piece of software that Microsoft controls and will never be > useable on something other than a Windows box. It's their way of making > sure it's always more expensive to run something other than windows > (including unix, OS/2, etc) and to keep a hold on the user by making sure > they cannot upgrade from windows. It's a very slick strategy.. They are > forcing the peripheral manufacturers to do their dirty work by making it > difficult to compete with the people who have submitted to microsoft > already. Also realize that by offloading the processing onto the processor it more quickly causes it to become outdated, so you need a faster processor. This is not 'paranoia' here, as I have a # of friends that work for Intel, and this is a published strategy of theirs that happens to mesh with M$'s vision. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message