Hello Roy.

22 Apr 05 12:06, you wrote to me:

 TW>>  And that is HOW they got where they are. Although HP stubbed
 TW>> their toe a bit by buying Compaq but they will recover.

 RT>> They should do okay ... as long as they don't go too
"proprietry"
 RT>> wiyth their  wares.

 RT> But both HP and Compaq have been playing the proprietary game for
 RT> quite some time now...

Yep, why I refuse to use their stuff .... and avoid working on it as far as 
humanly possible ...

 RT> The one windoze box I have here is a Compaq,  and I have *no* idea how
 RT> I'm ever likely to get that hardware running linux and taking
 RT> advantage of all the built-in stuff -- the SCSI host adapter (on the
 RT> MB),  the sound and video hardware (also on the MB),  etc.  I'm
 RT> planning to upgrade that machine anyhow, replacing it with something
 RT> newer,  so I'm not too worried about it.

Enjoy!

Russell

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