From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-16 04:57:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:56:59 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0209101828.cb5ff85@posting.google.com> <3d7f9d3f.920665532@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de> <3D81D690.1949CF65@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b5.b9 X-Server-Date: 16 Sep 2002 11:57:24 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29014 Date: 2002-09-16T11:57:24+00:00 List-Id: Well, software installation and driver installatin are two different things. Ultimately, you really don't want to have the end user install drivers at all. A user should be able to plug the device into the computer and it should just work - no more complicated than installing a new lamp in your livingroom. The problem with that is that you either a) have to have some kind of common interface(s) specified so that the OS can talk to any device of a specific class via an existing driver or b) have the new hardware somehow load up the driver to the OS when it is plugged in. In either case, you're talking about support from the hardware that may not exist in the environment of interest. If you could get all the hardware guys to agree on a standard and get the industry to say "Going forward, it shall be thus..." the end user would have a lot easier time with it, but that's been notoriously hard to achieve. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Preben Randhol wrote in message news:slrnaob4ja.o7.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > > *Detected mouse movement! Please stand by while rebooting to update > changes.* > > Installing software on Windows is a pain in the neck and extremely time > consuming compared to Linux. Besides with Linux you learn something. >