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I used Compaq in my example because they were the first company to reverse engineer and IBM bios through some legal slight of hand (one group reverse engineered
by djsumdog 6y ago
I used Compaq in my example because they were the first company to reverse engineer and IBM bios through some legal slight of hand (one group reverse engineered the entire BIOS and wrote a spec, an entirely different group re-implemented that spec, and the first PC compatible was born). I wasn't commenting on the quality of the brand at all.
- kube-system 6y agoI know why you picked it, and I wasn’t commenting on the quality either. (I loved Compaqs when I was young) I’m just saying that dumpsters are already full of old computers that could run Linux, but people aren’t doing it. They’re tossing the old Windows Vista laptop in the trash and buying whatever is on sale at Best Buy this week.