From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) Subject: How about this? (was Re: Worst possible 386 setup) Date: 30 Jun 1993 18:14:35 GMT
When I went shopping for a second-hand AT some time back a colleague handed
me a floppy containing the DOS kernel and a freeware program called
infoplus.exe and said to use that for testing the machines I was looking at.
Infoplus tells you a lot about what's under the hood without having to open
up the machine to look.
I was just wondering if some clever person could cook up a floppy to test
machines for Linux suitability. I don't begin to know how to do this
sort of thing; but if there is an accumulating body of knowledge about
things that don't work and why they don't work then those are the things
that should go on the disk. The idea is you would take the floppy to the
computer dealer and stick in their demo machine and it would tell you if
there are things about the motherboard, keyboard controller, whatever,
that have been found to be Bad News.
-- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu haynes@cats.bitnet"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!" "No it aint! But ya gotta know the territory!" Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"