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To: stribe30 who wrote (35544)4/12/2001 7:59:19 AM
From: pgerassiRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Dear Stribe30:

Re: "(Warning - computer enthusiast tech geek rambling about to ensue)"

I have owned Turtle Beach cards before. I find that Windows drivers are not as good as the Creative ones. They were less robust when dealing with things like joysticks, midi connections, and DSP downloading. Perhaps they have fixed up them since I owned them, but my Creative SBLive (original and value versions) have no such problems. I currently do not use WinME or Win2K. Since most of the use in Windows is for games, I see no reason to upgrade at this time. I use Linux when it comes time to do heavy duty number crunching work. There the drivers for SBLives are far better than the ones for TB cards.

After watching co workers writing WinNT2K drivers for Amtelco products, I can see why the drivers for new MS OSes are so rare. The development environment is terrible wrt UNIX. The internal APIs are very hard to work with and where Linux can have one driver for ISA, PCI, Compact PCI, PCI64, and other Buses, WinNT2K requires a separate driver for each bus type. This chews up resources both within a system and development team time.

The worst part is that Microsoft keeps throwing out the "baby with the bath water" in each new version. Each new version uses new APIs and the old ones are no longer supported. This is rediculous. Now you should see why corporations refuse to upgrade until all of the old hardware is fully supported in the new version, and then they may move (some are getting the idea that they move only when forced to (and maybe not even then)).

(Rant off)

Pete
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