It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers
of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha.
He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses
were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill
of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver
available for that hardware from any source.
Michal
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