Linux-Hardware Digest #718, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Kenshington VideoCAM? (Young4ert)
Re: Fast hardware please! ("Dr. Christian Simmendinger")
Re: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue. (LhD Administrator)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx (LhD Administrator)
Re: NIC problem? (LhD Administrator)
Re: Advansys ASB-3940U2W SCSI adapter (LhD Administrator)
Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo (LhD Administrator)
Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: help w/on board video card please! (LhD Administrator)
Re: Multiple Ultra66 controllers (LhD Administrator)
Re: Efficient SpeedStream 3060 drivers (Rod Smith)
joystick port on SoundBlaster 16 PCI ("Michael W. Davis")
CANOn LBP 660 (DARU Bertrand)
Re: DSL - Cisco 605 (Greg Wimpey)
Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
frame buffer ("James Pritts")
Re: PnP sound card: no sound ... (H Bohm)
Re: PnP sound card: no sound ... (H Bohm)
External CDROM (Scott Zielinski)
Re: Network Card Drivers? (Andrew Daugherity)
problem occured while mounting floppy drive ("Assad Montasser")
SCSI controler and ide-scsi emulation ("Jacques PELET")
Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive (Tony Curtis)
NOOOOOOoooo!!! Bastards! (Magnus Svensson)
Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: No Sound in Quake2 for Linux (Henrik Carlqvist)
block_number -> sector number ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best printer for linux box? (D G)
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kenshington VideoCAM?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:58:32 -0400
Can anyone please tell me if the Kenshington VideoCAM USB is supported
under Linux?
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From: "Dr. Christian Simmendinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Fast hardware please!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:24:41 +0200
leo wrote:
>
> Greetings all!
>
> I am in the process of trying to figure out what hardware I should buy to
> obtain the highest performance/price ratio I can for a Linux based system.
> This is needed to run single-threaded, floating-point and memory
> intensive jobs, the kind of work that doesn't really gain much from
> clustering. We DO want some level of SMP, however, in order to allow
> more than one person to run jobs on the system without affecting the
> overall performance too much.
floating + memory intensive jobs -> UP2000 / DS 20
Stream reports ~1250/1350 on the UP2000/DS20 against a ~400 of Xeon.
Specfp reports ~4 times the performance of Xeon -
- per cpu
Christian
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:09:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm more less thinking this is a hardware related issue or maybe a
> driver issue, I recently bumped my system up to 100mbit, that may be
> doing it too.
Is this a genuine tulip or a clone? You may want to get the latest or
even the manufacturer-hacked driver in the latter case. Also, there are
some debugging options and media-select options that may be helpful. I
don't remember them off the top of my head, check out Donald Becker's
page. (If you don't have it handy, just search www.linhardware.com
for "tulip", it'll come up under resources).
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:12:35 GMT
In article <8dmpgo$56a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i also tried to boot with the aaic7xxx=no_reset parameter . . . but,
> that didnt help either . . . =[
This may sound silly, but it is possible to get burned by this -- you
are *sure* that all the termination, cabling and drive parameters are
OK? Sometimes when the termination isn't right you can go through an
entire low-level format and verify in Adaptec's BIOS, but Linux will
still refuse to boot up with timeout errors.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC problem?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:19:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bbyeung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone translate the message for me? I'm using a 3com 3c905-
tx NIC.
The card is getting wedged. What's the driver version you are using?
What version of the card?
Also check this out:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=3c905
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advansys ASB-3940U2W SCSI adapter
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:16:55 GMT
In article <8dm6bu$gpp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Card and hard disk seem to be recognised.
Could you post those messages, as well? Thanks! /dev/hdb is definitely
*not* your SCSI disk, that's why it's interesting what it says.
After those messages:
> *using device hdb
> *mounting hdb on /tmp/rhimage rc = 0
Ok, so this your IDE CDROM getting remounted, and I guess it's "hdb"
for whatever reason and it couldn't find it. We have had problems with
RH 6.1 installs, as well, so it's probably not anything specifically
related to your SCSI controller.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:21:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> does anyone have any advice on running linux on the abit
> bp6 mobo. i'm interested in getting hold of a dual celeron
> system but it appears that the udma66 is flaky and the bios
> is delicate. any advice on which distributions work best..
See this:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?534
The distribution doesn't matter, it's the kernel version that's
important. People either love or hate the BP6. It seems that most
people having problems are using the onboard IDE instead of SCSI, so it
may be wise to get SCSI instead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Onboard Audio in Linux
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:38:59 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.A.M.) writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> Iīm totally new in Linux (SuSE 6.4 since yesterday), eveything works
> well, but I have a problem with my sound device: Itīs an onboard sound
> chip (Asus K7M mainboard), in windows sytem overview it says "VIA PCI
> Audio Controler", so it seems it can be treated like a PCI sound-card.
> But its impossible to find out the type of the chip (neither in the
> manual nor on Asusīs homepage, so donīt have any idea what to change
> in modules.conf.....
Long-term, your best bet is to install the ALSA drivers
(http://www.alsa-project.com). Doing so may be a bit of an effort for a
newbie, unless they come with SuSE 6.4. (You need version 0.5.6 or later;
earlier versions lack the appropriate driver.) You need the
snd-card-via686a module and, if you want compatibility with most Linux
sound software snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss.
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http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help w/on board video card please!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:26:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
yosh-puppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try to install rhat 6.2 on my new computer w/ an on board video
> card (listed as intel 810 chipset in windows), it detects the video
The i810 is not particularly well-supported at the moment. You'll want
the latest version of XFree 4.0, and it will probably require a kernel
patch, as well. Rate it at LhD once you get it working (or give up on
it), so that others can benefit from your efforts!
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple Ultra66 controllers
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:32:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Bruelemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to use 2 Promise Ultra66 controllers in one system?
Yes, although why not just use SCSI if you care about performance and
RAID?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Efficient SpeedStream 3060 drivers
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:42:14 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8dmg7f$k44$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronnie Corny) writes:
> has anyone gotten the ENI Speedstream 3060 (internal ATM/ADSL card) to work in
> Linux?
AFAIK, no. The only internal DSL modem I know of that has Linux drivers is
the Diamond MM1. Your best bet is to get an external Ethernet-interfaced
DSL modem and an Ethernet card. If your ISP won't facilitate such a trade,
you can probably pick something up on eBay (http://www.ebay.com) or some
other auction site. BE CAREFUL, THOUGH; there are several different types
of DSL modem, and even different types of ADSL modem. Check with your ISP
about compatibility before you place a bid.
--
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Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Michael W. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: joystick port on SoundBlaster 16 PCI
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:07:52 -0500
Can't seem to enable joystick port on SB 16 PCI (known to Lothar as
Ensoniq1371-Mandrake 7.0). I do a...
insmod joystick
ok, then...
insmod joy-gravis
device busy or something like that...then I do a...
jstest /dev/js0
nothing...try all 4 devices...nothing.
Anybody know about this...oh yeah, my "onboard" joystick port doesn't work
either...but then neither does the "onboard" sound (cs1610)!
Thanks.
Michael
PS... Voodoo 3 2000 PCI...seems to be installed correctly (passed all the
glide2x/3x test progs), but quake2 crashes when another type of acceleration
is selected (besides "software")???
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From: DARU Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CANOn LBP 660
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:06:06 +0200
HELLO
Does someone know how to make work a canon laser LBP 660
on a linux system ?
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From: Greg Wimpey <greg.wimpey@waii*removetomail*.com.invalid>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DSL - Cisco 605
Date: 20 Apr 2000 09:09:53 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have the cisco 605 dsl modem
> I need to know if there are any drivers for it or the intel 2100 dsl
> modem (they are based on the same design) for linux.
> Has anyone gotten these to work? Anyone know if this can be done?
>
As has already been posted here, you will need to go to an external
DSL modem. I saw "uswest.net" in your Path: header, so I'm guessing
you are/will be a USWest DSL customer.
If so, that means you will need to go with USWest's MegaBit Deluxe
service. This costs $10/month more than the Select service, but
Deluxe uses the external Cisco 675 router/modem. All you need in your
computer is an Ethernet card. The 605/2100 is only supported under MS
Windows 9x/NT. Which means that if you run MacOS, any variety of
Unix, OS/2, BeOS, or anything else, you must pay for the Deluxe
service level. Is that what USWest means when they say "Life's better
here"?
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Opinions my own, not my employer's.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:22:33 GMT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:18:45 -0700, Neil Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi ,
>
>I have tried to put atm0 after the ATZ command in the init
>string, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I put
>it somewhere else?
Here's how to make it permenant:
use minicom to connect to modem
send it the following string:
AT&FM0&W0
&F: get profile zero
M0: turn off sound
&W0: save as profile zero.
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From: "James Pritts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: frame buffer
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:23:42 GMT
Do XFree86 3.3.x allow use of linear frame buffers or does one have to
switch banks? Also, where is the frame buffer mapped to, or does this
depend on the video card? If someone could point me to some more info on
these topics, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jimmy.
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:57:05 +0200
From: H Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PnP sound card: no sound ...
Another possiblity is the use of ALSA. I had a ALS100 card before and
it works fine with ALSA
Look at www.alsa-project.com or *.org I'm not sure!!!
Diethard Ohrt schrieb:
> On a (self-assembled) i486 I installed SuSE Linux 6.2. So far I didn't
> succeed in making the sound card work. I tried isapnp and the oss
> utility; oss complained about something like "Generic ALS not
> supported", and isapnp detected "conflicts" like:
> "... resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of IO at ..."
> "... Error occured executing request <IORESCHECK> -- further action
> aborted"
> pnpdump detects the card as "ALS100 Media Audio Controller".
>
> In /proc I didn't find any conflicts, or maybe I looked at the wrong
> entries?
> Which /proc files could help detect those conflicts?
>
> TIA
> Diethard
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:57:31 +0200
From: H Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PnP sound card: no sound ...
Another possiblity is the use of ALSA. I had a ALS100 card before and
it works fine with ALSA
Look at www.alsa-project.com or *.org I'm not sure!!!
Diethard Ohrt schrieb:
> On a (self-assembled) i486 I installed SuSE Linux 6.2. So far I didn't
> succeed in making the sound card work. I tried isapnp and the oss
> utility; oss complained about something like "Generic ALS not
> supported", and isapnp detected "conflicts" like:
> "... resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of IO at ..."
> "... Error occured executing request <IORESCHECK> -- further action
> aborted"
> pnpdump detects the card as "ALS100 Media Audio Controller".
>
> In /proc I didn't find any conflicts, or maybe I looked at the wrong
> entries?
> Which /proc files could help detect those conflicts?
>
> TIA
> Diethard
> --
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> Tel.: (+43) (0)51707-63709
> Fax: (+43) (0)51707-58652
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:03:02 -0400
From: Scott Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: External CDROM
Hi. I have an old computer at home that's just begging for Linux to be
put on it. Its an AMD586 133MHz computer on a 486 DX2 mother board
(Pent90 equiv) She has 40MB memory, 2.1GB HD, SoundBlaster AWE 32 sound
card, 1MB ISA Trident Video Card. 17" ViewSonic Monitor, and an EXTERNAL
32x CDROM drive. Here's the problem - how do install Linux I have either
RH5.2 RH6.0 or Mandrake 7.0 on CD from an external CDROM drive? There
doesn't seem to be an option for that? I know I could do a Hard Drive
install, but I didn't want to waste the space on the drive. Thanks....
Scott Zielinski
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From: Andrew Daugherity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Network Card Drivers?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:50:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I don't see any drivers for this on your page. I've already check
windrivers.com and driverguide.com. And what about Linux?
Dino7 wrote:
> yes, go to my page
>
> --
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> -----------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Daugherity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Does anyone know where I can get drivers for some old Thomas-Conrad
> > TC5045 ethernet cards (16-bit ISA, copyright '93) I bought (really
> > cheap, of course--$5 for 6 of 'em). I have a manual and a 5-1/4 floppy
> > with them, and I d/l'ed some drivers from compaq (I don't know why they
> > have TC stuff, but they do), but the compaq drivers are the same as
> > what's on the floppy -- dos netware, odi, stuff like that, no win95.
> > And it's not in the list under win95, and win95 doesn't detect it. I
> > also see no mention of it under any Linux page--are there any drivers
> > out there?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
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From: "Assad Montasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem occured while mounting floppy drive
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:08:21 GMT
Hello,
I have a problem while trying to mount my floppy disk drive , I have the
error message :
end_request: I/O error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0
end_request: I/O error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.
I have this line in my /etc/fstab :
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 1
I would be very thankful if someone could help me.
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From: "Jacques PELET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI controler and ide-scsi emulation
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:23:14 +0200
Hello,
I'am planning to add an SCSI controler to my linux PC, and i'am already use
ide-scsi emulation to be able to use a CD-recorder.
Somebody knows if it could work fine ?
--
Jacques
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive
Date: 20 Apr 2000 11:18:25 -0500
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:08:21 GMT,
>> "Assad Montasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hello, I have a problem while trying to mount my floppy
> disk drive , I have the error message : end_request: I/O
> error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0 end_request: I/O
> error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is
> not a valid block device.
> I have this line in my /etc/fstab : /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> auto noauto,owner 0 1
Do you actually have a filesystem on the diskette?
(man mkfs)
hth
t
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From: Magnus Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NOOOOOOoooo!!! Bastards!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:29:13 +0200
http://www.techextreme.com/hardware/guides/md/
Why do I feel like crying...?
Is it going to be the same old story as the winmodems? Grrr.
/Magnus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive
Date: 20 Apr 2000 12:47:25 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:08:21 GMT, Assad Montasser
<<VXFL4.2222$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hello,
>I have a problem while trying to mount my floppy disk drive , I have the
>error message :
>end_request: I/O error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0
>end_request: I/O error , dev 02:00 (floppy) , sector 0
>mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 1
This also happens when you try to mount a floppy that has bad sectors
(i.e. the disk media itself is damaged.) I see it all the time. "mkfs
-c" will check for that sort of thing and try to work around it. HTH,
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Sound in Quake2 for Linux
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:09:12 +0200
H Bohm wrote:
> The support is running as a Module...YaST2 is usning the ALSA
> Sounddriver,
If you are using ALSA, is the oss compability module loaded?
"cat /proc/modules" should giv a line which looks something like this:
snd-pcm1-oss 13100 0
regards Henrik
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Subject: block_number -> sector number
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:55:39 GMT
hi
i need a way to translate from a filename -> the numbers of the sectors it takes on
the disk.
i got the file blocks numbers, but i don't know how to translate them to the pyshical
sector numbers.
i guess that simply multipling block_num by
( block_size/ sector_size ),won't do it, since i need to find the pyshical address of
the first block in the file system.
so maybe the formula should be
#define blk2sector(blk_num) ( (blk_num * (blk_size/sector_size)) +
first_block_pyshical_addr )
will this do the work ?
where can i find the address of the first block in the FS ?
do data blocks numbers starts from 0, or that block with index 0 is the boot sector
and than super_block, inodes.. ?
any help will be appricated
/gaby
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:06:58 -0700
Since we're already way off topic...
The Wogster wrote:
>
> IBM bungled OS/2 in three ways (IMHO)
>
> 1) They never asked people to trust it, they should have installed it on
> every PC they produced, possibly with the option to replace it with Windows,
> instead the PC division installed Windows everywhere, and made people go out
> and buy OS/2.
I think that a recent case of US (and states) vs. Microsoft talks about
this one. Microsoft forced companies to bundle Windows with all of
their PCs or none of their PCs -- there was no inbetween.
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