On 05/04/2011 02:11 PM, scott wrote:
>> I doubt integrating whatever 3rd party code they bought into their own
>> codebase was a five minute job.
>
> I wonder what OS is it using?

It supports FAT16, FAT32 and EXT3. It does not support NTFS. Take a wild 
guess...

[Assuming that they're using a full off-the-shelf OS, and not a smaller 
piece of custom software.]

> Also they probably have some 3rd party to
> write the software anyway, so have no direct control over exactly how
> things are implemented internally, so long as it works.

If it's actually running a standard desktop OS, adding a USB driver is 
probably trivial. If it's a custom product, arranging for interrupt 
handlers to fire and so forth is probably not trivial at all, even if 
the handlers were written for you by somebody else.

>> If we paid £20 for this thing, I wouldn't mind it being a bit naff. But
>> we didn't. It cost hundreds and hundreds of pounds. For that price, you
>> damned well *expect* it to be good quality!
>
> Just change your expectations, then your problems are solved :-)

And people wonder why Britain is no longer great. :-P

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