9 Oct
2017
9 Oct
'17
8:32 p.m.
On 10/09/2017 04:24 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
The PC world is full of hardware and software of various levels of conformance to various "standards".
As a consequence, when someone builds a new component, they often try to trick old components into working. These tricks can sometimes be indistinguishable from bugs.
Many years ago, when I was a computer tech working on minicomputers, I had to configure an 8" hard drive to emulate a Data General Zebra disk pack drive. I recall setting up the partition so that it looked right to the operating system.