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<John Kim> writes: > In message Fri, 1 Jul 1994 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT), > Randal Whittle <whittle@chaph.usc.edu> writes: > > >> about a 9600 level. Of course, I have one of those antique TP700's > >> with a 16550AFN serial port :) ^^^^^ > > > Does anybody have a clue why IBM would put 16550 UARTs in their > > early 700 series ThinkPads but not in the 750's?!!!! This is ANGERING! :( > > The 700 and 720 were MicroChannel Architecture machines. All MCA machines > have 16550 UARTs (as well as other features that make multitasking go more > smoothly). The 750 was in a way a concession to the market's continuing > use of ISA - it is an ISA machine. I guess too many people complained they > couldn't run Linux on the Thinkpad 7xx. :) > I have a THinkPad 750Cs and would like to run Linux on it. Is it possible without too much work? THanks, /Pradeep