[Discussion] USB Memory Sticks

[Don Burch]

Good point Steven.
At Comdex 94 we were doing Warp 3 installs for manufacturerers and 
vendors. We were asked to leave one booth because our OS/2 install would 
not report their video as SVGA. Of course there were potential customers 
watching the install with great interest.
We had a few other awkward moments trying to get over rated hardware 
recognized.

How often do you think "hot deals" in the marketplace are related to a 
product being slightly off standard? Lots I suspect.

Don


Steven Levine wrote:
> In <45B163F3.3030700 at tpg.com.au>, on 01/20/07
>    at 09:36 AM, Kev <kdownes at tpg.com.au> said:
> 
> 
>> My TP R32 has 1.1 ports and USB2 devices work in it.  My understanding 
>> is that all USB2 devices are backward compatible with USB1.1.
> 
> This is what the standard says.  Reality differs, especially for older
> implementations of USB hardware and software.
> 
> Another factor to keep in mind is that on other OS's, the vendors supply
> drivers that address the idiosyncracies of their systems and devices. 
> With eCS/OS2, the drivers tend to be generic and written to the letter of
> the standard.  This increases the likelyhood that failures will occur for
> hardware that's not quite 100% standard.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steven
>