$20 for one of the best laptops money could buy 20 years ago: is it worth it?

Yeah, but this failed and was fixed in the most head-scratching fashion. I was booted the case not just because I can speak French, but because I was our group’s operating system specialist. I used to get booted the Netware and Red Hat cases as well. (Linux server distros were just starting to make a dent in the market.)

A problem with a stack overrun that was being revealed by localisation strings? Possibly, but the damned server needed the BIOS update as much as the Warp roll-up. Other servers? Absolutely no problem with French Warp at the customer’s patch level. And, as I say, I was eventually running bog-standard English Warp in all but name and localisation (but English Warp out of the box had no problem).

That case dwelt in some really obscure intersection of the hardware and software.

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