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- Subject: Re: X-Windows frustration
- From: Totoro <riley@example.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 15:54:26 +0900
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>I just had a horrid thought: do you have a Mach64 *card*, or did IBM >use the Mach64 chipset in a proprietary implementation? If the >latter, you could be permanently hosed. Bingo. I just opened it up and looked. It's not a card, but the local implementation of the chipset. Now I see why the device cannot be located, and never will be. Sigh... I was really looking forward to running Linux, too. >I will never buy IBM hardware in Japan again. Not without a written >moneyback guarantee of *full* Linux compatibility. IBM Japan >obviously is a Japanese company with Japanese ideas about service. > >"Secrecy before service." The best thing I can say at this point is, "It wasn't MY money." I got it with grant money from the university here. However, I couldn't agree more with your assessment. Thanks for the help! Anybody need a slackware CD? David Riley Hachinohe Institute of Technology 88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki Hachinohe-shi 031 ----------------------------------------------------------------- a word from the sponsor will appear below ----------------------------------------------------------------- The TLUG mailing list is proudly sponsored by TWICS - Japan's First Public-Access Internet System. Now offering 20,000 yen/year flat rate Internet access with no time charges. Full line of corporate Internet and intranet products are available. info@example.com Tel: 03-3351-5977 Fax: 03-3353-6096
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