[arachne] Re: DOS only or? (Vista drivers)
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:19:02 -0700
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Hi Sam,
The thing that bugs me the most
about the compatibility issue is when one
DOES ASK or at least reads the info printed
on the outside of the sealed shrink-wrapped
box, and......it says........that it works with the
Windows version that one is using and the rest
of the hardware one is using.....SO.....one buys it
and goes home to install it. When you get it home
and you unpack it and read the installation
directions, then, right there in plain printed text, it
says, "Needs such-and-such a CPU to work."
Of course, my CPU is "always" just one CPU
too slow. I have had this happen to me several
times, so now I am surprized when I buy something
and it actually installs. I even have a shelf where I
put all the upgrade boards, etc. that I'm saving 'til
I get a newer computer they will work on.
Eric
On Fri, 9 May 2008 14:08:58 -0400 (EDT) ewalt@xxxxxxxx writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> L.D. Best said:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > What *I* don't understand is if he even tried his HP printer with
> the
> > new computer ... or did he ASSume he'd need new "drivers"?
> >
> > As I stated in the other message, HP Printer Drivers are *not*
> something
> > which makes OS interface possible; they are rewrites to the
> printer
> > processor itself.
>
>
> No, he plugged it in and it didn't work. You know--plug and pray.
> Then he asked the store where he bought the new Vista computer and
> was
> told then that his "old" printer--an HP Photosmart 1115--was not
> compatible with Vista. He should have asked first. Maybe someone
> would
> have told
> him. He didn't know.
>
> Lots of people don't know squat. Including me.
>
> Thanks for tutorial, L.D.
>
> Sam Ewalt
>
> >
> > ====
> > Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >>
> >>> My friend had to buy a new printer to go with his new
> >>> Vista computer. His almost new H/P, perfectly fine printer
> >>> was not supported by Vista. No drivers that he could find.
> >>
> >> What I don't understand is why he wanted Vista so badly that he
> would
> >> rather buy a new printer than use an older Windows instead. I
> presume
> >> that this wasn't the first Windows machine he bought, so he
> probably
> >> already had something like XP which would have worked with the
> old
> >> printer.
> >>
> >> Udo
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