re intel the pentium and linux inabu ibm rz tu clausthal de arnd burghardt writes hi folks yesterday i visited the cebit hannover germany where intel was presenting the pentium processor they had four in words machines with this beast running so they presented it nicely unly by running picture shows this i could do on a the presentor promised it to be binary compatible to the i and i said i don t believe i showed him a one disk linux system emergency disk with patched lilo to boot from disk and said him convice me boot this no guts no glory a he decided no glory he won t let anybody touch his holy cows and not even boot a suspect os i thought by myself this is the coward of the day and went back to earth what cn we learn this technology is far from industrial standarts so you can expect this beast in your local computer shop at least in spring next year only my cents yes only your here s mine if i were running at a new chip at a trade show and had little to no real technical knowledge i wouldn t let some stranger with a diskette boot my demo machine if the demo machine is down too long people will not see my nice demos and if this purposted linux diskette is really something that will wipe the disk or is loaded with a virus i m in deep trouble no marketer in their right mind would let you do this unless they had specifically invited people to do so and provided machines to do it with we can we learn this technology will be shipping from pc vendors in may and will be i compatible the golden gryphon gryphon openage com the crown jewel of the american prison system president bill clinton on living in the white house openage the premier sco unix integrator in the washington d c area
