From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Frank Haber"
 wrote:
>
>o and that Dell and HP, at least, have a history of buying cost-reduced OEM
>hardware, or subtly different variants "just because" (? to
be different?  ?to
>retain update control?), and affixing ?deliberately sketchy/generic PCI
>IDs....

Add IBM and Compaq to that list, when I was working at NZ Post I grew to
heartily hate "chipset du jour".

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