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Getting New Drivers Isn't a Canon of Faith | 139 comments (139 topical) | Post A Comment
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by wantobe on Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 03:03:41 AM PDT

When you bought the scanners, did you know you would be migrating to x64? When you migrated to x64, did you check to make sure that drivers for your equipment would be available?

I'm sorry, but unless Canon specifically stated that they would develop drivers for x64 I don't see this as a legitimate beef. The OS might be from the same company, but the underlying architecture is quite different. It would be the same principle as if you bought the scanners to run on Windows XP Pro and suddenly decided to change over to OS X without checking to make sure your hardware would work with it.

Rob Miles
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
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