Re: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem

[Chuck Norcutt]

Papanek died in 1998 which was a time when a really large OS was about 1 
million lines of code (or less).  4 years later, in 1992, IBM's OS/2 was 
3 million lines of code.  My last check on Windows was that it's 
guesstimated to now be about 30 million lines of code. The number has 
grown to the point that the code is no longer fully testable.  Testing 
is controlled by statistical means. A very large portion of that code is 
device drivers.  You can bet that testing obsolete PCMCIA hardware in 
what is now an obsolete software environment is pretty low on 
Microsoft's totem pole.
Papanek's goals were admirable but he was never even close to facing the 
complexity of today's hardware and software environment.  You seem to 
have a predilection for tilting at windmills.  I'm afraid you are 
destined for disappointment.  Some of the past must be abandoned to make 
way for the future.
Chuck Norcutt


On 3/27/2016 11:02 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>       Looking at the system by way of the control panel I saw that SP1 had been 
> installed, and the last update was about three years ago, long after Win7 was 
> surpassed by Win8, etc.  I looked deeply for any mention of an updated native 
> PCMCIA driver and found nothing.
>
>       I will probably get a USB 3.0 CardBus later on, which should be 
> compatible with the native Win7 PCMCIA driver.  Maybe.  This is not a driving 
> issue (no pun intended) as everything works with WinXP, except for an 
> occasional webpage.
>
>       Forcing earlier software and hardware to be obsolete is a clear violation 
> of Victor Papanek's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek) first two 
> rules of responsible design, but it does fulfill the third rule as they have 
> made generous use of abundant sewage.
>
> > Chris, as I said yesterday, there are several hundred updates from the
> > last couple of years.  Microsoft never expected you to download them all
> > at once.  I''m not sure that I see a way for you to ever catch up,
> > unless you can download them to an external drive, where you can pick
> > and choose what to install.
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>       - Hunter S. Thompson
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