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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
        Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:46:45 +0930

RE: AMD Notebook Chips / Computer Shops in Adelaide / Auslinx

<snip>

> The Compaq, IBM and HPs that I've worked on are all of excellent build
> quality, as well as using decent parts.

Historically, "tier one" companies, particularly Compaq and IBM, have a
tendency to "value add" by changing things like the BIOS, or chip
signatures -- I've had an experience with an IBM network card that I'm sure
was a standard <blah> (can't recall), but IBM had changed the PCI signature,
so it was unrecognised to the PnP software in Linux...

<snip>

> [1] The last HP monitor that I was "working with" died. I wrang up HP,

so you wrung HP?

/me visualises Andrew twisting and squeezing a HP saleswomble to get all the
moisture out...

(sorry -- speaking of pedantry ;)

rr

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