[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Brian Dunbar]

Mark wrote:
> On 31 May 2007, at 17:47, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> 
>> " From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> "
>> "
>> " Even today, in 2007, when the PC has *NO* need for legacy  
>> hardware, Microsoft
>> " forces it to because they refuse to rewrite their PC HAL to run  
>> without it.
>>
>> that's probably because they don't know how to rewrite it.	;^D
> 
> Hey, we've all been there at one time or another - they probably  
> forgot ot comment a huge part of it or something due to time  
> constraints ;)
> 

We might imagine the scene as a coder at MS World HQ is opening up the
source code for that chunk.

They page down.  And down.  "Why did they ... what was he thinking?"
Page some more, read

#ID10T translate function

or

# Will comment this at a later date

And it's _all_ like that.  You'll find the poor guy at a bar later,
drinking heavily.

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