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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by brain5ide on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:16AM (#3070204)
Hardware improved. I believe the guy's talking about software.
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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by bsaunder on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @09:13AM (#3070716)
I believe he's talking about the whole lot of it. Software and hardware . I think USBs suffer their own issues (see http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List as a simple example (hint see the ""If the Device does not work" section)).

This fits the OPs notion that no one really understand the crap underneath it all.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by balloot on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @12:16PM (#3071585)
Which software was it exactly that was so great and just worked? MS-DOS? Windows 3.1? Windows Me? Some specifics would be nice, because across the board it seems everything is MUCH better now. It used to be that you would buy a computer game and 75% of the time it would not work out of the box.
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