They still do. They still have proprietary hardware (SCSI drives, etc.) and the brain dead concept of putting a bunch of the bios and stuff on disk so you can't get to it if the disk fails and it eats up a bunch of your disk space.
Kurt Wall wrote: > Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote: > % Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful for > % possible help. > > I recall that early Compaqs had all manner of proprietary goober about > their systems, such as BIOS data stored in special sectors on the > hard disk, components *only* available from Compaq, and so forth. > > Kurt -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
