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From: kworrell@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: FOLLOW-UP: Microsoft C V5.1 Set
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Date: 6 May 88 15:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!kworrell    May  6 10:57:00 1988


If we are in a flaming mode about setup programs, we should also
be torching IBM for their auto-configuration system.

I find that it is nice when it works (and it does work most of the time)
but it has some limitations.

The worst is that you can't boot the machine with an unknown adapter
installed.  This is just a pain.  There should be some 'out' so that
you can still use the machine without that hardware option.

If you have two floppy drives, it automatically assumes that both
are 3-1/2" disks.  I have a standard Model 80 and a 5-1/4" Sysgen
drive (which I like a lot).  Now suppose that I want to copy an
adapter option disk's info to my reference disk.  Well, they said,
"He's got 2 drives, we might as well use both and have him put the
ref disk in A: and the Adapter option disk in B:."  But this doesn't
work at all if the I have 2 3-1/2" disks.

Automation is a good thing assuming that you can think up every
possible configuration.  We know this isn't possible.  There should
always be a manual way out.


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