Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> writes:
> And for the record, I believe NEC and NCR are now the same company,
> rather than two separate entities of a holding company.
Er, no.
* NEC is a giant Japanese electronics manufacturer (Nippon Electric Corp).[1]
In the 80s/early-90s, they made their own (rather popular in Japan) line of
not-PC-compatible computers, but AFAICS, make pretty bog-standard hardware
these days (which seem to be of reasonable quality, but undistinguished in
design) .
I've run Debian on many NEC computers and it's always worked great
(starting with a 500MHz PC of roughly the same generation that Rich is
trying to use).
[1] Actually they recently split into several separate companies, but
all still use "NEC" as part of their names.
* NCR is an American company "National Cash Register", which seems to be
of rather questionable relevance lately, but they do seem to make PCs.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/c/n.htm
-Miles
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