From: garrett@sba70.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore) Subject: Re: does linux work on PS/note Date: 27 Apr 1993 21:15:32 GMT
In article <C65p6I.3zw@ms.uky.edu> kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy) writes:
>Hi,
> Im considering buying a PS/note laptop and wonering
> is IBM had done anymore braind dead thing with bios, etc.
> Does anyone know if linux will work on this?
>
>thanks..
>paul
>--
> -Paul (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
If you need to ask, then you've not learned much about IBM... the only company
(I know of) that sends out a loadable device driver to patch their messed up
BIOS (dasddrvr.sys). I strongly caution against the purchase of an IBM computer.
I'm not sure that they even can work with Linux -- it depends on whether or not
they have microchannel or ISA bus interfaces, I suppose. Knowing IBM, its
probably MCA.
A note: I'm not an IBM hater - they make good printers, keyboards, (occassionally
disk drives), and I used to like their stoutly built mice. (Recently even their
mice have become cheeep and it shows!)
They also have a decent OS (for a non-Un*x, Linux OS :^) But they don't market
it very well -- especially to developers, so it'll never be a "major" player.
At least, that's my prediction. (There are some who swear by OS/2 2.1, but then
there are also those who swear by Windoze and NT :^)
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