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Re: Serial port & Modems (External)
> > 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 th
> > 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
Yer talkin' to the wrong guy--I've never tried it. But I've sent a
copy of this note to Sean Chou, the TP List "God" and I'm sure he'll
point you in the right direction. I think some people have successfully
run Linuxx on their TP750's, but with some caveats (I think the floppy drive
didn't work right or something).
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