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From:Rick Hodger
Date:7 Aug 2000 at 21:58:17
Subject:Re: AMIOPEN: Windows SDK buzz

I watched as Patrick Roberts hammered "AMIOPEN: Windows SDK buzz" out on
their keyboard...

> ...without starting a huge thread full of flames...

> Can someone tell me (in a couple of lines) why everyone is so interested
> in a Windows version of the SDK? (Why not just dual-boot your Windows
> system?)

(a) Dual-booting is not for the faint hearted, one wrong keypress and you
wipe the hard-disk.

(b) Not everyone is happy using Linux, a lot of the main complaints are
about the lack of drivers (ADSL/ISDN mostly it seems).

(c) Linux isn't very easy to get hold of in some places.


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