Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 17, 2005 01:50 PM
You weren't there when Win3.11 were used were you? Dos didn't have auto-detecting, just that most devices was BIOS compatible. Auto-detection of devices during installation started with Windows 94 but it was still far from perfeck: Detecting... yes. Automatically configuring... not always. Most of the time it just says it found an unknown device and asks you to supply a 3rd party driver. (And that's why Win95 had stability problems in many cases.)
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Re:1995?!?! lamness filter encounterd
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 17, 2005 01:50 PMDos didn't have auto-detecting, just that most devices was BIOS compatible.
Auto-detection of devices during installation started with Windows 94 but it was still far from perfeck:
Detecting... yes.
Automatically configuring... not always.
Most of the time it just says it found an unknown device and asks you to supply a 3rd party driver. (And that's why Win95 had stability problems in many cases.)
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