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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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On 2015-10-05, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/15, 9:19 AM, in article d7fm7qFbjssU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
> Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Nope. In the real world example I ran into, which was years ago so I cannot
>>> be that specific, it ended up being an incompatibility between a certain
>>> range of serial numbers for the sound card. They had a small difference that
>>> they figured would not impact anything - but it did. So once it was
>>> eventually tracked down it was clear it was the sound card - but you were
>>> looking to blame the motherboard (or the user for having incorrect settings
>>> on the motherboard!)
>> 
>> He's wearing rose colored glasses.
>
> Agreed. To be fair it has become far less common over the years for me to
> hear of or run into such things in terms of hardware - but it does happen.
> And it happens in other areas, too.

Yep. I've built my own PCs. There was a stretch of time where all of
mine were home built PCs running various versions of Linux or Unix. So
I'm well aware of the issues one can encounter.

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