On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > The "Thinkpad love" I see here IMO appears to reflect the age and > experiences of the discussion participants. Early in the days of PCs there > was way more diversity in hardware that could be explicitly Linux friendly > or hostile, and IBM was friendlier from the start when not all were. > Recall that in the 90s and 00s, HP, IBM and Dell (well DEC which was > eventually consumed by Dell via Compaq) all had big legacy > Unix/minicomputer businesses to protect, plus under Ballmer Microsoft was > overtly and aggressively hostile. IBM probably did the best job in not > letting all this get in the way of providing Linux support early on its > high-end PCs, and that reputation has stuck to the Thinkpad brand to this > day.
No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed the Alpha. Not Dell. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
