What HAL's will Vista support when it retails?

[Eric]

Hi,

I've been playing around a bit with Vista B2. Got 'er up and going on a P4
laptop with little pain, but then out of curiosity tried to see how well
she'd behave on an older dual-P3. She wouldn't even load on the dual-P3;
whined and blue-screened about the BIOS not being fully ACPI compliant.

I flashed the last BIOS (AmiBIOS) version made available for the m/b years
ago. The specs say that it is ACPI compliant, but I suspect that its an
old ACPI version that doesn't work with new OS's. (Win2000 and WinXP also
whined about the ACPI, where-as Win98/WinNT used to work just fine.)

I tried both F5 and F7 during the Vista installation attempt at "Press F6 to
load third-party SCSI/Raid drivers" (or whatever it was, I don't remember
verbatim off-hand) to see if that trick was still in effect, but apparantly
it doesn't have any HAL's other than ACPI. (Googled later and confirmed
that.)

Q: Is Vista going to support a MPS Multiprocessor HAL when it hits the
retail shelves?

This is more of a curiosity than anything else, as I wouldn't really want to
run it on the dual-P3. (Its running FreeBSD.) Just wondering if Vista is
going to neglect a lot of older computers by only supporting an ACPI HAL.
Why, one may ask, would anyone even want to run Vista on a P3? Well, why
not if you can? Sure, you will have to scale all the eye-candy back, but
P3's are still perfectly fine for routine light use (Web/email/word
processing/etc) under Win2K and WinXP -- so why not under Vista as well?

 

[Guest]

Yes I really don't understand why anyone would buy a car
when a horse and cart does the job just fine.

Hello to all the Amish folks, oh no computers, sorry.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

My wife and I are Mennonites and prefer you not poke fun at our brethren.

 

[Guest]

I don't care if you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Gay,
Straight, Black, White, Pink or Green, or anything else, I
don't want to know, and I don’t care. !

How dare you tell me that you are a Mennonite, I don’t care, if you are from
Mars !

You will not get any special treatment or privileges from me, I treat
everyone the same, tuff.

I am not poking fun at the Amish or Mennonites, they have
a good attitude to life, you really don't need all the latest
wiz bang technology to be happy. They use horse and cart and are happy to do
so, but most of the general population does not, they prefer to use more
modern mode of transport, and so it is with computers, each council cleanup
day in my area, everyone puts out their old PC’s on the footpath, for council
to collect, and take to land fill. Most of the PC’s work just fine for
routine PC work, but we as a society must have the latest wiz bang machine,
often just because everyone does.

I am quite serious about using horse and cart, I know
many that do in the country, and in many countries, it's just
fine to get about on, beats walking.

The consumer products industries especially the computer
and car industries are notorious for their throw away
attitude and built-in obsolescence.

Vista should be made capable of running in limited mode on older machines.

I admire anyone who can reuse or embrace old
technologies in these modern days. But modern medicine
and procedures were developed for all to use and often
dogma and religion can impinge on their use, etc, but
that’s another story.

I was of the opinion that the Amish did not use computers, a directive that
I feel is unnecessary, but that is only my opinion, you obviously use
computers, so thank you for making that obvious.

 

[Guest]

Mennonite Jokes

http://members.tripod.com/~Willoewen/mennojk.html

Q: What is the difference between a Mennonite and a canoe?
A: A canoe tips

http://www.mennolit.com/pages/jokes.html

Q: How many Mennonites does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Seven - one to actualy change the bulb and six to complain that they
liked the old one better.


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