[plug] HP to ship the NX5000 (laptop) with SUSE pre-installed.

[skribe]

On Thu,  5 Aug 2004 13:33, Senectus . wrote:

> Once apon a time it was not legal for a hard drive manufacturer to
> ship a hard drive without an OS on it.
> Back then the cheapest and best known OS was MSDOS.
> EVERY hard drive in the world was sold with a copy of MSDOS on it and
> a tithe paid to MS.

That might have been the case with IBM-PC clone drives but it certainly 
wasn't the case with those made for the Amiga, which IIRC at the time outsold 
the PC.

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