Re: tlug: Linux on a PC98

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

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tlug note from Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> on.  NEC peripherals were just ridiculously over-priced.  Seems to me
> with the extra money you pay for this allegedly "superior hardware"

  When I said "superior hardware" I was comparing the original 1982
8086 NEC PC-9801 640x400 with the IBM 8088 640x200 machines that came
out a little later.  It was superior hardware in design and most
probably in durability and time-to-failure.  

  Of course, NEC got very fat and lazy in the protected monopoly market
that it enjoyed here for so long, and lost its edge a long way back.
Probably still makes durable, if wildly over-priced and conservative
hardware.

  By the way, the difficulties to overcome in porting Lignux to an NEC
9801 would include the fact the video-RAM, all the ROM and probably
just about anything else live at completely different addresses from
the PC-compatibles.  This is not just a floppy format problem.   

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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