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On Wed, 17 May 2006 19:42:28 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> This leads to a rather interesting question - what is to be considered
> "standard equipment", and who (or what) is reponsible for maintaining
> compatibility with this standard?
The responsibiity would rest with the manufacturer if they want to
maintain compatability with any particuler standard. It's a free
choice situation. Manufacturers can omit whatever they want and do.
ISA slots were standard before, but new motherboards don't have
them. ISA modems with jumpers used to be "standard" now they are
hard to find and won't fit new motherboards anyway. And so on.
It's certainly a problem for Arachne on new computers.
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