Python list vs google group

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 16 June 2018 12:31:28 Jim Lee wrote:

> On 06/16/2018 08:36 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
> > On 6/15/18 11:07 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>>> I once had a Mustek color scanner that came with a TWAIN driver. 
> >>>> If the room temperature was above 80 degrees F, it would scan in
> >>>> color - otherwise, only black & white.  I was *sure* it was a
> >>>> hardware problem, but then someone released a native Linux driver
> >>>> for the scanner.  When I moved the scanner to my Linux box, it
> >>>> worked fine regardless of temperature.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Jim
> >
> > That sounds like it would probably be classified as a software issue
> > then (or possibly documentation). It could be hardware if the
> > Windows SCSI card didn't support something it was expected to or
> > perhaps indicated that it did, or didn't negotiate correctly.
> >
> > Ultimately, often the difference between a hardware error and a
> > software error is what the documentation says, I have seen more than
> > once a hardware document saying something like Feature A was
> > intended to work this way but the hardware doesn't work right to
> > implement it, so the software needs to do XYZ as a work around. So
> > now, if the software doesn't do XYZ it is a software error, all due
> > to a hardware design issue that was just redefined.
>
> It was a software issue that manifested itself as a hardware failure. 
> However, SCSI was such a temperamental beast to begin with that finger
> pointing usually took as much time as diagnosing the problems.
>
My finger never gets tired of pointing at the bean counter between 
engineering design and the production floor. And there has been a time 
or 3 over the last 70 years when the finger was loaded.
> -Jim



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